Prim

Quick meaning: Prim is an adjective meaning Of a person, their manner or appearance: Formal and precise; stiffly decorous.

Meaning

Of a person, their manner or appearance: Formal and precise; stiffly decorous.

More Meanings

1. (by extension) Of a person: Prudish; straight-laced.
2. Of things: Neat; trim.
3. (intransitive) To make one's expression prim. [with up]
4. (transitive) To give a prim or demure expression to (one's face, mouth, or (rare) lips).
5. (transitive) To dress (one) up affectedly or demurely. [with up or out]
6. (botany) privet
7. (obsolete) A prim person.

Example Sentences

prim regularity

And although Paul shares an apartment with his prim wife, aptly named Prudence, they rarely see or speak to each other.

Philemon was in great Surprize,⁠ And hardly could believe his Eyes, Amaz’d to ſee her look ſo prim; And ſhe admir’d as much at him.

God damn it, what does she want of me, this sad, beautiful bridgeplayer of the Fifth Floor, with her air of lost love and her prim carnality?

Word Forms

• primmer
• primmest
• prims
• primming
• primmed

Synonyms for prim

Depending on context, synonyms include refined, dainty, prissy, straightlaced, prudish, straitlaced.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include prudish, puritanical, square-toed, dainty, mincing, straightlaced.

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