| ADJECTIVE | all | prissy, priggish, prim, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian | exaggeratedly proper |
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| all | prissy, dainty, nice, overnice, squeamish | excessively fastidious and easily disgusted |
| Sounds | prih'siy | |
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| Rhymes | absorbency ... Yangtze: 255 rhymes with siy... | |
| Meaning | exaggeratedly proper. | |
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| Synonyms | priggish, prim, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian | |
| Broader | proper | marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness |
| Spanish | gazmoño, mojigato, pudibundo, puritano, remilgado | |
| Adverbs | prissily | in a prissy manner |
| Meaning | excessively fastidious and easily disgusted. | |
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| Synonyms | dainty, nice, overnice, squeamish | |
| Broader | fastidious | Giving careful attention to detail |
| Spanish | escrupuloso, puntilloso, quisquilloso | |
| Catalan | escrupulós, primmirat | |
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