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prissy
Synonyms:
Victorian
,
chicken
,
effeminate
,
epicene
,
fastidious
,
finical
,
finicky
,
fussy
,
genteel
,
muliebrous
,
old-maidish
,
old-womanish
,
precious
,
priggish
,
prudish
,
puritanical
,
sissified
,
sissy
,
sissyish
,
soft
,
squeamish
,
strait-laced
,
straitlaced
,
stuffy
,
unmanly
,
womanish
Related Words:
Victorian
collapse
a person who lived during the reign of Victoria
typical of the moral standards or conduct of the age of Queen Victoria
of or relating to Queen Victoria of Great Britain or to the age in which she ruled; "Victorian morals"
related words >
Gothic
,
Quakerish
,
antediluvian
,
antiquated
,
antique
,
archaic
,
bluenose
,
censorious
,
classical
,
demure
,
fossil
,
fossilized
,
genteel
,
goody-goody
,
grown old
,
hidebound
,
medieval
,
mid-Victorian
,
narrow
,
of other times
,
old maid
,
old-fashioned
,
old-maidish
,
old-world
,
overmodest
,
petrified
,
prig
,
priggish
,
prim
,
prissy
,
prude
,
prudish
,
puritan
,
puritanical
,
sanctimonious
,
smug
,
starchy
,
stiff-necked
,
straitlaced
,
stuffy
,
superannuated
prig
collapse
related words >
Brahmin
,
Grundy
,
Victorian
,
bluenose
,
clout
,
conformist
,
cop
,
egghead
,
elitist
,
filch
,
filcher
,
formalist
,
genteel
,
goody-goody
,
heist
,
highbrow
,
larcener
,
larcenist
,
mandarin
,
mid-Victorian
,
nab
,
name-dropper
,
nick
,
old maid
,
pedant
,
pilfer
,
pilferer
,
precisian
,
precisionist
,
priggish
,
prissy
,
prude
,
prudish
,
purist
,
puritan
,
puritanical
,
purloiner
,
snob
,
stealer
,
stick-in-the-mud
,
straitlaced
,
stuffed shirt
,
stuffy
,
thieve
,
tufthunter
prim
collapse
dress primly
contract one's lips; "She primmed her lips after every bite of food"
assume a prim appearance; "They mince and prim"
related words >
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
prudish
collapse
related words >
Quakerish
,
Victorian
,
austere
,
censorious
,
choicy
,
choosy
,
conscientious
,
critical
,
decorous
,
demure
,
discriminating
,
discriminative
,
exacting
,
fastidious
,
formal
,
fussy
,
genteel
,
hidebound
,
meticulous
,
mid-Victorian
,
narrow
,
old-maidish
,
overmodest
,
particular
,
perfectionistic
,
picky
,
precise
,
precisianistic
,
priggish
,
prim
,
prissy
,
proper
,
punctilious
,
puristic
,
puritanic
,
puritanical
,
rigid
,
sanctimonious
,
scrupulous
,
selective
,
sensitive
,
severe
,
smug
,
squeamish
,
stern
,
stiff
,
stiff-necked
,
strait-laced
,
straitlaced
,
strict
,
stuffy
unmanly
collapse
not possessing qualities befitting a man
related words >
afraid
,
chicken
,
chickenhearted
,
coward
,
cowardly
,
cowed
,
craven
,
daunted
,
dismayed
,
effeminate
,
epicene
,
fainthearted
,
fearful
,
funking
,
funky
,
gutless
,
henhearted
,
intimidated
,
lily-livered
,
milk-livered
,
milksoppish
,
milksoppy
,
mousy
,
muliebrous
,
old-womanish
,
overtimid
,
overtimorous
,
panic-prone
,
panicky
,
pigeonhearted
,
poltroon
,
prissy
,
pusillanimous
,
rabbity
,
sissified
,
sissy
,
sissyish
,
soft
,
spunkless
,
timid
,
timorous
,
unmanned
,
weak
,
weak-kneed
,
weakhearted
,
white-livered
,
womanish
,
yellow
womanish
collapse
having characteristics associated with women and considered undesirable in men; "womanish tears"
related words >
breakable
,
brittle
,
cheap-jack
,
chicken
,
cobwebby
,
crumbly
,
dainty
,
delicate
,
delicately weak
,
distaff
,
effeminate
,
female
,
feminine
,
flimsy
,
fragile
,
frail
,
frangible
,
gentlewomanlike
,
gimcrack
,
gimcracky
,
girlish
,
gossamery
,
gynecic
,
gynecoid
,
gynic
,
jerry
,
jerry-built
,
kittenish
,
ladylike
,
light
,
lightweight
,
little-girlish
,
maidenly
,
matronal
,
matronlike
,
matronly
,
muliebral
,
muliebrous
,
namby-pamby
,
old-womanish
,
papery
,
pasteboardy
,
petticoat
,
prissy
,
puny
,
shattery
,
sissified
,
sissy
,
sissyish
,
sleazy
,
slight
,
soft
,
tacky
,
unmanly
,
unsubstantial
,
wispy
,
womanlike
,
womanly
effeminate
collapse
having unsuitable feminine qualities
related words >
AC-DC
,
amphierotic
,
autoerotic
,
bent
,
bisexed
,
bisexual
,
breakable
,
brittle
,
butch
,
campy
,
cheap-jack
,
chicken
,
cobwebby
,
crumbly
,
dainty
,
delicate
,
delicately weak
,
deviant
,
flimsy
,
fragile
,
frail
,
frangible
,
gay
,
gimcrack
,
gimcracky
,
gossamery
,
homoerotic
,
homosexual
,
jerry
,
jerry-built
,
lesbian
,
light
,
lightweight
,
mannish
,
muliebrous
,
namby-pamby
,
old-womanish
,
papery
,
pasteboardy
,
perverted
,
prissy
,
puny
,
queer
,
sapphic
,
shattery
,
sissified
,
sissy
,
sissyish
,
sleazy
,
slight
,
soft
,
tacky
,
transvestite
,
tribadistic
,
unmanly
,
unsubstantial
,
weak
,
wispy
,
womanish
,
womanly
sissified
collapse
related words >
afraid
,
breakable
,
brittle
,
cheap-jack
,
chicken
,
chickenhearted
,
cobwebby
,
coward
,
cowardly
,
cowed
,
crumbly
,
dainty
,
daunted
,
delicate
,
delicately weak
,
dismayed
,
effeminate
,
epicene
,
fainthearted
,
fearful
,
flimsy
,
fragile
,
frail
,
frangible
,
funking
,
funky
,
gimcrack
,
gimcracky
,
gossamery
,
henhearted
,
intimidated
,
jerry
,
jerry-built
,
light
,
lightweight
,
lily-livered
,
milk-livered
,
milksoppish
,
milksoppy
,
mousy
,
muliebrous
,
namby-pamby
,
old-womanish
,
overtimid
,
overtimorous
,
panic-prone
,
panicky
,
papery
,
pasteboardy
,
pigeonhearted
,
prissy
,
puny
,
rabbity
,
shattery
,
sissy
,
sissyish
,
sleazy
,
slight
,
soft
,
tacky
,
timid
,
timorous
,
unmanly
,
unmanned
,
unsubstantial
,
weak
,
weak-kneed
,
weakhearted
,
white-livered
,
wispy
,
womanish
,
yellow
priggish
collapse
exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
related words >
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
straitlaced
collapse
related words >
Quakerish
,
Sabbatarian
,
Victorian
,
authoritarian
,
bigot
,
bigoted
,
borne
,
censorious
,
closed
,
constricted
,
cramped
,
creedbound
,
deaf
,
deaf to reason
,
demure
,
dogmatic
,
dour
,
evangelical
,
fanatical
,
firm
,
fundamentalist
,
genteel
,
hard
,
hidebound
,
hyperorthodox
,
illiberal
,
impliable
,
inexorable
,
inflexible
,
insular
,
iron
,
ironbound
,
ironclad
,
ironhanded
,
libertine
,
literalist
,
literalistic
,
little
,
little-minded
,
mean
,
mean-minded
,
mean-spirited
,
mid-Victorian
,
muscle-bound
,
narrow
,
narrow-hearted
,
narrow-minded
,
narrow-souled
,
narrow-spirited
,
nearsighted
,
obdurate
,
obstinate
,
old-maidish
,
orthodox
,
overmodest
,
parochial
,
petty
,
precisianist
,
precisianistic
,
prig
,
priggish
,
prim
,
prissy
,
procrustean
,
provincial
,
prudish
,
purblind
,
purist
,
puristic
,
puritan
,
puritanic
,
puritanical
,
relentless
,
rigid
,
rigorist
,
rigoristic
,
rigorous
,
rockbound
,
sanctimonious
,
shortsighted
,
small
,
small-minded
,
smug
,
staunch
,
stiff
,
stiff-necked
,
straightlaced
,
strict
,
stubborn
,
stuffy
,
unbending
,
uncatholic
,
uncharitable
,
uncompromising
,
ungenerous
,
unliberal
,
unrelenting
,
unyielding
genteel
collapse
related words >
Victorian
,
affected
,
appropriate
,
aristocratic
,
artificial
,
becoming
,
blue-blooded
,
braw
,
cavalier
,
chic
,
chivalrous
,
civil
,
classy
,
clothes-conscious
,
confined
,
cosmopolitan
,
county
,
courteous
,
courtly
,
cultivated
,
cultured
,
dapper
,
dashing
,
debonair
,
decent
,
decorous
,
distingue
,
dressed to advantage
,
dressed to kill
,
ducal
,
elegant
,
exalted
,
exquisite
,
fashionable
,
felicitous
,
fitting
,
formal
,
gentle
,
gentlemanlike
,
gentlemanly
,
graceful
,
gracious
,
happy
,
high
,
high-class
,
highbred
,
insular
,
intolerant
,
jaunty
,
kinglike
,
kingly
,
knightly
,
la-di-da
,
ladylike
,
mannered
,
mannerly
,
meet
,
mincing
,
narrow
,
natty
,
neat
,
nifty
,
nobby
,
noble
,
of gentle blood
,
of rank
,
overdone
,
parochial
,
patrician
,
polished
,
polite
,
pompous
,
posh
,
pretentious
,
prig
,
priggish
,
princelike
,
princely
,
prissy
,
proper
,
provincial
,
prudish
,
puritanical
,
putting on airs
,
queenlike
,
queenly
,
quite the lady
,
recherche
,
refined
,
respectable
,
right
,
ritzy
,
royal
,
seemly
,
sharp
,
silk-stocking
,
sleek
,
smart
,
smug
,
snazzy
,
soigne
,
soignee
,
sophisticated
,
spiffy
,
spruce
,
stilted
,
straitlaced
,
stuffy
,
style-conscious
,
stylish
,
suave
,
suitable
,
swank
,
swanky
,
swell
,
thoroughbred
,
titled
,
tony
,
too-too
,
tricksy
,
trig
,
trim
,
uncharitable
,
unnatural
,
upper crust
,
urbane
,
well-behaved
,
well-bred
,
well-brought-up
,
well-dressed
,
well-groomed
,
well-mannered
precise
collapse
sharply exact or accurate or delimited; "a precise mind"; "specified a precise amount"; "arrived at the precise moment"
related words >
absolute
,
accurate
,
appreciative
,
attentive
,
authentic
,
be precise
,
careful
,
censorious
,
certain
,
choicy
,
choosy
,
circumscribed
,
close
,
concrete
,
conscientious
,
constant
,
correct
,
critical
,
defined
,
definite
,
delicate
,
demanding
,
descend to particulars
,
detail
,
detailed
,
determinate
,
different
,
differential
,
direct
,
discriminate
,
discriminating
,
discriminative
,
distinct
,
distinctive
,
distinguished
,
distinguishing
,
esoteric
,
especial
,
even
,
exact
,
exacting
,
exceptional
,
exigent
,
explicit
,
express
,
exquisite
,
extraordinary
,
faithful
,
fastidious
,
fine
,
finical
,
finicking
,
finicky
,
fixed
,
full
,
fussy
,
genteel
,
individual
,
individualize
,
inerrable
,
inerrant
,
infallible
,
inflexible
,
inner
,
intimate
,
itemize
,
limited
,
literal
,
literatim
,
make precise
,
mathematical
,
methodical
,
meticulous
,
micrometrically precise
,
microscopic
,
minute
,
narrow
,
nice
,
noteworthy
,
orderly
,
particular
,
particularize
,
peculiarize
,
perfect
,
perfectionistic
,
personal
,
personalize
,
picayune
,
picky
,
pinpoint
,
precious
,
precisian
,
precisianistic
,
precisionist
,
precisionistic
,
prig
,
priggish
,
prim
,
prissy
,
private
,
proper
,
prudish
,
punctilious
,
punctual
,
puristic
,
puritanic
,
puritanical
,
refined
,
religious
,
religiously exact
,
respective
,
restricted
,
right
,
rigid
,
rigorous
,
scientific
,
scientifically exact
,
scrupulous
,
scrutinizing
,
selective
,
sensitive
,
several
,
severe
,
singular
,
solipsistic
,
special
,
specialize
,
specific
,
spell out
,
square
,
straitlaced
,
strict
,
stringent
,
stuffy
,
subtle
,
tactful
,
true
,
truthful
,
unambiguous
,
unbending
,
unconditional
,
undeviating
,
unequivocal
,
unerring
,
unyielding
,
veracious
,
verbatim
,
very
,
well-defined
,
word-for-word
sissy
collapse
a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive
related words >
Lord Fauntleroy
,
Milquetoast
,
Percy
,
afraid
,
aunt
,
auntie
,
baby
,
big baby
,
blood brother
,
brethren
,
brother
,
bub
,
bubba
,
bud
,
buddy
,
chicken
,
chicken liver
,
chickenhearted
,
country cousin
,
cousin
,
cousin once removed
,
cousin twice removed
,
coward
,
cowardly
,
cowed
,
cream puff
,
crybaby
,
daughter
,
daunted
,
dismayed
,
doormat
,
dull tool
,
effeminate
,
epicene
,
fainthearted
,
father
,
fearful
,
first cousin
,
foster brother
,
fraid-cat
,
fraidy-cat
,
frater
,
funk
,
funker
,
funking
,
funky
,
goody-goody
,
grandnephew
,
grandniece
,
granduncle
,
great-aunt
,
great-uncle
,
gutless wonder
,
half brother
,
henhearted
,
intimidated
,
invertebrate
,
jellyfish
,
kid brother
,
lightweight
,
lily
,
lily liver
,
lily-livered
,
meek soul
,
milk-livered
,
milksop
,
milksoppish
,
milksoppy
,
mollycoddle
,
mother
,
mouse
,
mousy
,
muliebrous
,
namby-pamby
,
nance
,
nancy
,
nebbish
,
nephew
,
niece
,
nonentity
,
nuncle
,
nunks
,
nunky
,
old woman
,
old-womanish
,
overtimid
,
overtimorous
,
panic-prone
,
panicky
,
pansy
,
pantywaist
,
pigeonhearted
,
prissy
,
pushover
,
rabbity
,
sad sack
,
scaredy-cat
,
second cousin
,
sis
,
sissified
,
sissyish
,
sister
,
sister-german
,
sistern
,
soft
,
softling
,
softy
,
son
,
sop
,
stepbrother
,
stepsister
,
timid
,
timorous
,
unc
,
uncle
,
uncs
,
unmanly
,
unmanned
,
uterine brother
,
weak
,
weak sister
,
weak-kneed
,
weakhearted
,
weakling
,
wet
,
white feather
,
white liver
,
white-livered
,
womanish
,
yellow
modest
collapse
free from ostentation or pretension; "the restrained elegance of the room"
not large but sufficient in size or amount; "a modest salary"; "modest inflation"; "helped in my own small way"
not offensive to sexual mores in conduct or appearance
marked by simplicity; having a humble opinion of yourself; "a modest apartment"; "too modest to wear his medals"
free from pomp or affectation; "comfortable but modest cottages"; "a simple rectangular brick building"; "a simple man with simple tastes"
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Olympian
,
aloof
,
altruistic
,
backward
,
bashful
,
becoming
,
betwixt and between
,
blank
,
boggling
,
budget
,
cheap
,
chilled
,
chilly
,
clean
,
cold
,
committed
,
common
,
consecrated
,
constrained
,
cool
,
coy
,
decent
,
decorous
,
dedicated
,
delicate
,
demeaning
,
demure
,
demurring
,
detached
,
devoted
,
diffident
,
disadvantaged
,
discreet
,
disinterested
,
distant
,
dry
,
dull
,
easy
,
economic
,
economy
,
elegant
,
expressionless
,
fair
,
fair to middling
,
fairish
,
faltering
,
forbidding
,
frigid
,
frosty
,
frugal
,
guarded
,
hesitant
,
hesitating
,
homely
,
humble
,
humble-looking
,
humble-visaged
,
humblest
,
icy
,
immaculate
,
impassive
,
impersonal
,
in the shade
,
inaccessible
,
inconspicuous
,
indifferent
,
inexpensive
,
inferior
,
infra dig
,
inglorious
,
innocuous
,
insipid
,
introverted
,
junior
,
lackluster
,
least
,
less
,
lesser
,
limited
,
low
,
low-priced
,
lower
,
lowest
,
lowliest
,
lowly
,
manageable
,
mean
,
mediocre
,
medium
,
meek
,
middling
,
minor
,
moderate
,
namby-pamby
,
nice
,
nominal
,
of a kind
,
of a sort
,
of sorts
,
offish
,
ordinary
,
passable
,
plain
,
poor
,
priggish
,
prim
,
prissy
,
proper
,
prudish
,
pure
,
puritanical
,
qualmish
,
reasonable
,
reluctant
,
remote
,
removed
,
repressed
,
reserved
,
respectable
,
restrained
,
restricted
,
reticent
,
retiring
,
sacrificing
,
scrupulous
,
second rank
,
second string
,
secondary
,
seemly
,
self-abasing
,
self-abnegating
,
self-abnegatory
,
self-conscious
,
self-denying
,
self-devoted
,
self-effacing
,
self-forgetful
,
self-immolating
,
self-neglectful
,
self-neglecting
,
self-renouncing
,
self-sacrificing
,
self-unconscious
,
selfless
,
sensible
,
servile
,
shabby
,
shoddy
,
shrinking
,
shy
,
silent
,
simple
,
small
,
so-so
,
spotless
,
squeamish
,
stainless
,
standoff
,
standoffish
,
stickling
,
straitlaced
,
stuffy
,
sub
,
subaltern
,
subdued
,
subject
,
subordinate
,
subservient
,
suppressed
,
teachable
,
tedious
,
temperate
,
third rank
,
third string
,
timid
,
timorous
,
token
,
tolerable
,
unacquisitive
,
unaffable
,
unambitious
,
unapproachable
,
unaspiring
,
unassertive
,
unassuming
,
unassured
,
unblemished
,
unboastful
,
uncongenial
,
undefiled
,
undemonstrative
,
underprivileged
,
understated
,
undistinguished
,
unelaborate
,
unembellished
,
unexaggerated
,
unexceptional
,
unexpansive
,
unexpensive
,
ungenial
,
unimportant
,
unimposing
,
unobtrusive
,
unornamented
,
unostentatious
,
unpossessive
,
unpresuming
,
unpresumptuous
,
unpretending
,
unpretentious
,
unselfish
,
unsparing of self
,
unsullied
,
vapid
,
vulgar
,
wishy-washy
,
withdrawing
,
withdrawn
,
within means
,
worth the money
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