primness

  • 21prim — prim1 primly, adv. primness, n. /prim/, adj., primmer, primmest, v., primmed, primming. adj. 1. formally precise or proper, as persons or behavior; stiffly neat. v.i. 2. to draw up the mouth in an affectedly nice or precise way. v.t …

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  • 22schoolteacherish — /skoohl tee cheuhr ish/, adj. Disparaging. showing characteristics thought to be typical of a schoolteacher, as strictness and primness. [1925 30; SCHOOLTEACHER + ISH1] * * * …

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  • 23ceremonial — Synonyms and related words: High Church, august, baccalaureate service, baptismal, buckram, celebration, celebratory, ceremonious, ceremoniousness, ceremony, commemorative, commencement, conventional, convocation, courtly, decorous, dignified,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 24ceremony — Synonyms and related words: amenities, anniversaries, appearances, baccalaureate service, buckram, celebrating, celebration, ceremonial, ceremonies, ceremoniousness, civilities, commemoration, commencement, convention, conventions, convocation,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 25dignity — Synonyms and related words: Atticism, Establishment, VIP, address, appropriateness, augustness, baron, big gun, big man, big name, bigwig, brass, brass hat, buckram, cachet, celebrity, ceremonial, ceremoniousness, ceremony, chasteness, chastity,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 26extrinsicality — Synonyms and related words: alienage, alienism, appearance, buckram, ceremonial, ceremoniousness, ceremony, dignity, exteriority, externality, externalness, extraneousness, foreignness, form, formality, formalization, gravity, impersonality,… …

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  • 27false modesty — Synonyms and related words: Quakerishness, censoriousness, demureness, demurity, hideboundness, mauvaise honte, narrowness, overmodesty, priggishness, primness, prudery, prudishness, puritanicalness, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, smugness, stiff …

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  • 28form — Synonyms and related words: Berkeleianism, Hegelianism, Kantianism, MO, Masan, Neoplatonism, Platonic form, Platonic idea, Platonism, Procrustean law, SOP, absolute idealism, accumulate, acquire, act, adjustment, algorithm, allocation, allomorph …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 29gravity — Synonyms and related words: G, G suit, acuteness, adduction, affinity, allurement, apogeotropism, attractance, attraction, attractiveness, attractivity, augustness, avoirdupois, beef, beefiness, bleakness, buckram, capillarity, capillary… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 30pomp — Synonyms and related words: array, brilliance, buckram, caravan, cavalcade, ceremonial, ceremoniousness, ceremony, circumstance, column, cortege, cosmorama, cyclorama, dignity, diorama, display, dress parade, exhibit, exhibition, exposition,… …

    Moby Thesaurus