prim¹ /prim/

1. Rigidly punctilious and precise
2. Stiffly formal
3. Over-demure
4. Prudishly disapproving

1. To deck or dress with great nicety
2. To set (the face) or purse (the lips, mouth) in a prim expression
3. To neaten

1. To look prim
2. To prim the mouth

primˈly adverb

primˈness noun

• unfumed
• unfunded
• unfunny
• vernacularization
• vernacularize
• vernacularized
• vernacularizes
• vernacularizing
• vernacularly
• vernaculars
• vernal
• vernal grass
• vernalisation
• vernalisations
• vernalise
• vernalised
• vernalises
• vernalising
• vernalities
• vernality
• vernalization
• vernalizations
• vernalize
• vernalized
• vernalizes