| Prim 1. (a.) Formal; precise; affectedly neat or nice; as, prim regularity; a prim person. 2. (v. t.) To deck with great nicety; to arrange with affected preciseness; to prink. 3. (v. i.) To dress or act smartly. Thesaurus Entries Quakerish, Victorian, bluenosed, buckram, censorious, ceremonial, ceremonious, chipper, conventional, correct, decorous, demure, formal, genteel, hidebound, in buckram, mid-Victorian, narrow, neat, nice, old-maidish, orderly, overmodest, precise, prig, priggish, prissy, proper, prudish, puritanical, rigid, sanctimonious, shipshape, smug, snug, spick-and-span, starch, starched, stiff, stiff-necked, stilted, straight, straitlaced, stuffy, tidy, trim, uncluttered, well-groomed, wooden |