Priggish

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Priggish \Prig"gish\, a.
     Like a prig; conceited; pragmatical. -- {Prig"gish*ly}, adv.
     -- {Prig"gish-ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  priggish
       adj : exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't
             approve of my miniskirts" [syn: {prim}, {prissy}, {prudish},
              {puritanical}, {square-toed}, {straitlaced}, {strait-laced},
              {straightlaced}, {straight-laced}, {tight-laced}, {victorian}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  94 Moby Thesaurus words for "priggish":
     Quakerish, Victorian, abusive, blackening, blameful, censorious,
     choicy, choosy, condemnatory, condescending, conformist,
     conscientious, contemptuous, critical, damnatory, demure,
     denunciatory, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, derisive,
     discriminating, discriminative, disparaging, exacting, execrating,
     execrative, execratory, fastidious, formal, formalistic, fussy,
     goody-goody, hidebound, high-hat, invective, inveighing,
     judgmental, meticulous, mid-Victorian, narrow, nit-picking,
     objurgatory, old-maidish, overmodest, particular, patronizing,
     pedantic, perfectionistic, picky, precious, precise,
     precisianistic, prig, prim, prissy, prudish, punctilious, purist,
     puristic, puritanic, puritanical, reproachful, reprobative,
     reviling, ridiculing, sanctimonious, scoffing, scrupulous,
     selective, self-complacent, self-contented, self-esteeming,
     self-loving, self-righteous, self-satisfied, sensitive, severe,
     smug, sniffy, snippy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty,
     stick-in-the-mud, stiff-necked, strait-laced, straitlaced, strict,
     stuffy, uptight, vilifying, vituperative