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.
• STIFFTAIL
  The ruddy duck.
• 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.