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prim [prim]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: particular, fussy
Synonyms: Victorian, blue-nose, ceremonial, ceremonious, choosy, cleanly, conventional, correct, dapper*, decorous, demure, fastidious, formal, genteel, good, goody-goody, nice, nit-picking, orderly, overmodest, polite, precise, priggish, prissy, proper, prudish, puritanical, rigid, shipshape, spic-and-span, spruce, stickling, stiff, straight, strait-laced, stuffy, tidy, uncluttered, upright, well-groomed, wooden
Antonyms: informal, rumpled
Main Entry: careful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: cautious; painstaking
Synonyms: accurate, alert, apprehensive, assiduous, attentive, chary, choosy, circumspect, concerned, conscientious, conservative, cool, deliberate, discreet, exacting, fastidious, finicky, fussy, going to great lengths, guarded, heedful, judicious, leery, meticulous, mindful, observant, particular, playing safe, precise, prim, protective, provident, prudent, punctilious, regardful, religious, rigorous, scrupulous, selfdisciplined, shy, sober, solicitous, solid, thorough, thoughtful, vigilant, wary
Antonyms: careless, inattentive, incautious, thoughtless, uncareful, unconcerned, unscrupulous
Main Entry: courtly
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: refined manner
Synonyms: adulatory, affable, aristocratic, august, ceremonious, chivalrous, civil, civilized, complimentary, conventional, cultured, decorous, dignified, elegant, flattering, formal, gallant, gracious, high-bred, imposing, lofty, obliging, polished, polite, preux, prim, refined, stately, studied, urbane
Antonyms: impolite, indecorous, inelegant, low-bred, provincial, rough, uncivil, unpolished, unrefined
Example Sentences
  • But compared to the scrawny, chain-smoking veterans on his newsdesk he was in truth remarkably prim.
  • Tract houses on prim lanes have been built over the original pasture.
  • To ask this, both sides insist with prim faces, is entirely to miss the point.
Main Entry: dapper
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: well-groomed, neat
Synonyms: bandbox, brisk, chic, chichi, classy, clean, dainty, dashing, doggy, dressed to kill, dressed to nines, jaunty, natty, nice, nifty, nimble, nobby, posh, prim, rakish, ritzy, sassy, sharp, showy, smart, snazzy, snug, spiff, spiffy, spruce, spry, stylish, swank, swanky, swell, trim, turned out, well turned out
Antonyms: dirty, dishevelled, ruffled, rumpled, scruffy, shabby, sloppy, tousled, ungroomed, wrinkled
Main Entry: decorous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: appropriate, suitable
Synonyms: au fait, becoming, befitting, ceremonial, ceremonious, civilized, comely, comme il faut, conforming, conventional, correct, de rigueur, decent, demure, dignified, done, elegant, fit, fitting, formal, good, mannerly, meet, moral, nice, polite, prim, proper, punctilious, refined, respectable, right, seasonable, sedate, seemly, staid, well-behaved
Antonyms: impolite, inappropriate, indecent, indecorous, unbecoming, unfit, unrefined, unseemly, unsuitable
Main Entry: demure
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: reserved, affected
Synonyms: backward, bashful, blushing, close, coy, decorous, diffident, earnest, humble, modest, nice, prim, prissy, proper, prudish, reticent, retiring, sedate, serious, shy, silent, skittish, sober, solemn, staid, strait-laced, timid, unassertive, unassuming, unassured
Notes: demur is the verb 'to object or voice opposition' while demure is the adjective meaning 'modest, shy'
Antonyms: aggressive, bold, extroverted, outgoing, shameless, strong
Main Entry: formal
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: stiff, affected, correct
Synonyms: aloof, by the numbers, ceremonious, conventional, decorous, distant, exact, nominal, playing the game, polite, precise, prim, punctilious, reserved, seemly, sententious, starched, stilted, straight arrow, stuffy, unbending
Antonyms: customary, informal, normal, relaxed, unaffected
Main Entry: genteel
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: sophisticated, cultured
Synonyms: affected, aristocratic, artificial, chivalrous, civil, confined, courteous, courtly, cultivated, distingué, elegant, fashionable, formal, graceful, hollow, intolerant, la-di-da, mannerly, noble, ostentatious, polished, polite, pompous, precious, pretentious, priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, refined, respectable, straitlaced, stuffy, stylish, urbane, well-behaved, well-bred, well-mannered
Antonyms: boorish, callous, rough, rude, rugged, uncultured, unrefined, unsophisticated
Main Entry: groom
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make ready, prepare physically
Synonyms: brush, clean, coach, comb, curry, dress, drill, educate, lick into shape, make attractive, make presentable, nurture, preen, prep, pretty up, prim, prime, primp, put through grind, put through mill, ready, refine, refresh, rub down, shape up, sleek, slick up, smarten up, spiff up, spruce up, tend, tidy, train, turn out
Antonyms: forget, ignore
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