Word Meanings - PRIGGISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Like a prig; conceited; pragmatical. -- Prig"gish*ly, adv. -- Prig"gish-ness, n.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PRIGGISH)
- Coxcombical
- Vain
- affected
- conceited
- dandified
- pedantic
- priggish
- Pedantic
- Pedagogical
- Prim
- Formal
- precise
- demure
- starched
- stiff
- self-conscious
- unbending
Related words: (words related to PRIGGISH)
- FORMALITY
The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while - DEMURE
good manners); de of + murs, mours, meurs, mors, F. m, fr. L. mores manners, morals ; or more prob. fr. OF. meür, F. mûr mature, ripe in a phrase preceded by de, as de 1. Of sober or serious mien; composed and decorous in bearing; of modest - AFFECTATIONIST
One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall. - STIFFENER
One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat. - STARCHER
One who starches. - AFFECTION
Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections - AFFECTIBILITY
The quality or state of being affectible. - STIFFENING
1. Act or process of making stiff. 2. Something used to make anything stiff. Stiffening order , a permission granted by the customs department to take cargo or ballast on board before the old cargo is out, in order to steady the ship. - AFFECTIVELY
In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally. - CONCEITEDLY
1. In an egotistical manner. 2. Fancifully; whimsically. - CONCEITEDNESS
The state of being conceited; conceit; vanity. Addison. - AFFECTIONED
1. Disposed. Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10. 2. Affected; conceited. Shak. - AFFECTER
One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after. "Affecters of wit." Abp. Secker. - STIFF
Bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to crank. Totten. 8. Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff charge; a stiff price. Stiff neck, a condition of the neck such that the head can not be - FORMALIZE
1. To give form, or a certain form, to; to model. 2. To render formal. - AFFECTIVE
1. Tending to affect; affecting. Burnet. 2. Pertaining to or exciting emotion; affectional; emotional. Rogers. - FORMAL
1. Belonging to the form, shape, frame, external appearance, or organization of a thing. 2. Belonging to the constitution of a thing, as distinguished from the matter composing it; having the power of making a thing what it is; constituent; - AFFECTIONATED
Disposed; inclined. Affectionated to the people. Holinshed. - DEMURENESS
The state of being demure; gravity; the show of gravity or modesty. - AFFECTIONATE
1. Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother. 2. Kindly inclined; zealous. Johson. Man, in his love God, and desire to please him, can never be too affectionate. Sprat. 3. Proceeding from affection; indicating - REFORMALIZE
To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness. - OVERAFFECT
To affect or care for unduly. Milton. - MISAFFECT
To dislike. - INAFFECTED
Unaffected. -- In`af*fect"ed*ly, adv. - UNIFORMAL
Uniform. Herrick. - RESTIFF
Restive. - RESTIFFNESS
Restiveness. - SELF-CONCEIT
Conceit of one's self; an overweening opinion of one's powers or endowments. Syn. -- See Egotism. - ARISTARCH
A severe critic. Knowles. - MISAFFECTED
Ill disposed.