Precise or particular in matters of reputation or conduct; scrupulous, punctilious. Now rare.

Of persons, their manners and actions: Rigorously observant of forms; precise; prim in attire; ceremonious. Chiefly in reproachful use: Unduly…

Perfectly correct or precise, esp. in matters of dress or appearance; scrupulous, neat, fastidious.

Of persons: Addicted to ritual observances (obsolete); given to ceremony; punctilious in observance of formalities, esp. those of intercourse…

Of persons: Addicted to ceremony or ritual; precise in observance of forms of politeness; formal, ceremonious. Obsolete.

Precise, prim, solemn. Obsolete.

figurative. Old-fashioned, formal, precise.

Wearing, or distinguished by, a wig, bewigged; sometimes implying ‘extremely grave, formal, or ceremonious’.

Nice. Also reduplicated for emphasis, as nicey-nicey adj. also nicey-nice.

figurative. Characteristically formal in manner or style; correct, strait-laced.