Prim
[prɪm]
Definition
(verb.) dress primly.
(verb.) contract one's lips; 'She primmed her lips after every bite of food'.
(verb.) assume a prim appearance; 'They mince and prim'.
Inputed by Kelly--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The privet.
(a.) Formal; precise; affectedly neat or nice; as, prim regularity; a prim person.
(v. t.) To deck with great nicety; to arrange with affected preciseness; to prink.
(v. i.) To dress or act smartly.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Formal, stiff, precise, starch, starched, strait-laced, in buckram.
Checker: Marty
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Formal, precise, demure, starched, stiff, self-conscious, unbending, priggish
ANT:Unformal, easy, genial, unaffected, natural, free, naive
Edited by Kelsey
Definition
adj. exact and precise in manner: affectedly nice.—v.t. to deck with great nicety: to form with affected preciseness:—pr.p. prim′ming; pa.t. and pa.p. primmed.—adv. Prim′ly.—n. Prim′ness.
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Examples
- As for you, Amy, continued Meg, you are altogether too particular and prim. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Dear me,' said the prim man in the cloth boots, 'it is a very extraordinary circumstance. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- But Aunt March had not this gift, and she worried Amy very much with her rules and orders, her prim ways, and long, prosy talks. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It was my first visit to the scene of the crime--a high, dingy, narrow-chested house, prim, formal, and solid, like the century which gave it birth. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- His prim seat on horseback struck me altogether as too formidable. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Maxim, the prim young Russian with the smooth, warm-coloured face and black, oiled hair was the only one who seemed to be perfectly calm and sober. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- So am I,' responded the prim man, 'because I know it would have afforded so much amusement. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- If the Laurences had been what Jo called 'prim and poky', she would not have got on at all, for such people always made her shy and awkward. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- You have made Helen prim. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I've played the part of a prim young lady on the stage, and I'll try it off. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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