prim
primmest; primmed; primmer; primming; prims
Prim means polite, straight-laced, even twee. Many characters in Jane Austen novels are prim and proper.
Prim describes someone who is so concerned with being proper it becomes almost fake. If you go to the beach on spring break wearing a Victorian bathing costume, you're being prim. Clothes can be prim, too, like that long wool swimsuit. If you're feeling crazy, you can use prim as a verb meaning, "to purse your mouth into a prim expression" — like how you prim your lips when you look down your nose at someone using the wrong fork.
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affectedly dainty or refined
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synonyms:
dainty, mincing, niminy-piminy, twee
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refined
(used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel
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refined
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exaggeratedly proper
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synonyms:
priggish, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian
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proper
marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness
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proper
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assume a prim appearance“They mince and prim”
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type of:
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change
undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
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change
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dress primly
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contract one's lips
Vocabulary lists containing prim
As the oldest of five sisters and the only one who can legally drive, Odilia must lead a supernatural odyssey from the Rio Grande to Mexico to return the body of a drowned man.
Following the death of her grandmother, twelve-year-old Emma Talbot discovers the first white spots on her skin. What follows is Emma's journey to understanding her diagnosis of vitiligo while dealing with puzzles left behind by Gram.
Set in Dublin, Ireland, Nishat and her childhood friend Flávia contend one another in a high school contest to create the best henna business.
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