Definitions

prim

[prim] / prɪm /

ADJECTIVE

particular, fussy

Synonyms

STRONGEST

demure

STRONG

correct spruce stickling tidy uncluttered

WEAK

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

Antonyms

STRONG

untidy

WEAK

informal rumpled

Example Sentences

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Place of imprisonment, penitentiary; prim. a fortress, or the garrison thereof.

From The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] by Borrow, George Henry

A stew; prim. the pot in which the stew is made, which, as in the case of the olla, has come to signify the contents.

From The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] by Borrow, George Henry

I think it is, Edwardi sext. or prim. et quint.

From An Essay on Man by Morley, Henry

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