'Priggish' definitions:
Definition of 'priggish'
From: WordNet
adjective
Exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts" [syn: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian]
Definition of 'Priggish'
From: GCIDE
- Priggish \Prig"gish\, a. Like a prig; conceited; pragmatical. -- {Prig"gish*ly}, adv. -- {Prig"gish-ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'priggish'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Quakerish,
- 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,
- Victorian,
- vilifying,
- vituperative