Synonyms: prim, prim out, prim up
Definition: dress primly
Similar words: apparel, clothe, fit out, garb, garment, enclothe, habilitate, raiment, tog, dress
Definition: provide with clothes or put clothes on
Usage: Parents must feed and dress their child
Synonyms: prim
Definition: contract one's lips
Usage: She primmed her lips after every bite of food
Similar words: press, compact, compress, constrict, contract, squeeze
Definition: squeeze or press together
Usage: she compressed her lips; the spasm contracted the muscle
Synonyms: prim
Definition: assume a prim appearance
Usage: They mince and prim
Similar words: change
Definition: undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
Usage: She changed completely as she grew older; The weather changed last night
Synonyms: victorian, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical
Definition: exaggeratedly proper
Usage: my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts
Similar words: proper
Definition: marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness
Usage: proper medical treatment; proper manners
Synonyms: dainty, niminy-piminy, mincing, prim, twee
Definition: affectedly dainty or refined
Similar words: refined
Definition: (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel
Usage: she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship; refined people with refined taste