The meaning of PRIM is stiffly formal and proper : decorous. How to use prim in a sentence.

PRIM definition: 1. very formal and correct in behaviour and easily shocked by anything rude: 2. very formal and…. Learn more.

Prim describes someone who is so concerned with being proper it becomes almost fake. If you go to the beach on spring break wearing a Victorian bathing costume, you're being prim. Clothes …

If you describe someone as prim, you disapprove of them because they behave too correctly and are too easily shocked by anything rude. We tend to imagine that the Victorians were very prim and proper. We sat primly at either end of a long settee. She sipped her tea primly.

formally precise or proper, as persons or behavior; stiffly neat. (especially of a woman or girl) excessively demure or modest. primmed, primming. to draw up the mouth in an affectedly nice …

Definition of prim adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. (comparative primmer, superlative primmest) (disapproving) (of a person) always behaving in a careful and formal way, and easily shocked by anything that is rude. You can't tell her that joke—she's much too prim and proper. Want to learn more? formal and neat synonym demure

Precise or proper to the point of affectation; excessively decorous. b. Strait-laced; prudish. 2. Neat and trim: a prim hedgerow. 1. To fix (the face or mouth) in a prim expression. 2. To make prim, as in dress or appearance. To assume a prim expression.

PRIM meaning: 1 : very formal and proper; 2 : easily shocked or upset by rude behavior, comments, etc.

prim1 (prim), adj., prim•mer, prim•mest, v., primmed, prim•ming. adj. formally precise or proper, as persons or behavior; stiffly neat. v.i. to draw up the mouth in an affectedly nice or precise way. v.t. to make prim, as in appearance. to draw (one's face, lips, etc.) into a prim expression.

Prim definition: Neat and trim.