What is "prim" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does prim mean in English? Meaning of prim definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "prim" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "prim": assume a prim appearance

Verb

  • Meaning: assume a prim appearance
  • Example: They mince and prim
  • Synonyms: prim
  • Hypernyms: change
  • Meaning of "prim": affectedly dainty or refined

    Adjective

  • Meaning: affectedly dainty or refined
  • Synonyms: dainty mincing niminy-piminy prim twee
  • Similar: refined
  • Meaning of "prim": contract one's lips

    Verb

  • Meaning: contract one's lips
  • Example: She primmed her lips after every bite of food
  • Synonyms: prim
  • Hypernyms: compact compress constrict contract press squeeze
  • Meaning of "prim": exaggeratedly proper

    Adjective

  • Meaning: exaggeratedly proper
  • Example: my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts
  • Synonyms: priggish prim prissy prudish puritanical square-toed straight-laced straightlaced strait-laced straitlaced tight-laced victorian
  • Similar: proper
  • Meaning of "prim": dress primly

    Verb

  • Meaning: dress primly
  • Synonyms: prim prim out prim up
  • Hypernyms: apparel clothe dress enclothe fit out garb garment habilitate raiment tog
  • Adjective: prudish, straight-lacedformal; precise; affectedly neat or nice prim regularity; a prim person (Can we find and add a quotation of Jonathan Swift to this entry?)
  • Synonyms:

    demure, spruce, tidy, correct, Victorian, ceremonial, ceremonious, choosy, cleanly, conventional, dapper, decorous, fastidious, formal, genteel, good, goody-goody, nice, orderly, polite, precise, priggish, prissy, proper, prudish, puritanical, rigid, shipshape, stiff, straight, strait-laced, stuffy, upright, well-groomed, wooden, uncluttered, stickling, blue-nose, nit-picking, overmodest, spic-and-span,

    Antonyms:

    untidy, informal, rumpled,

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