priggish

adjective

Definition of priggishnext
as in staid

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for priggish
  1. staid
  2. prudish
  3. stuffy
  4. puritanical
  5. straitlaced
  6. Victorian
  7. prim
Adjective
  • My navy blazer, white shirt and khakis would otherwise have felt rather staid and unadventurous (at least for me), but the texture, color, and patina of my polo belt felt apropos.
    Todd Plummer, Robb Report, 6 Nov. 2024
  • The kicks made the crazies cry and even the staid fans scream.
    Alec Lewis, The Athletic, 2 Aug. 2024
Definition of staid
Adjective
  • The Comstock Act is a relic, not just of a more prudish era in American history, but of an age when the sort of individual rights that modern Americans take for granted effectively did not exist.
    Ian Millhiser, Vox, 27 May 2024
  • Emily, perhaps true to her prudish Adderall-y millennial type, is not especially flirty.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2024
Definition of prudish
Adjective
  • Bingo! Alivia's tantrum hack—to keep things lighthearted—is a simple one, but a great reminder that not everything has to be so stuffy.
    Tanay Howard, Parents, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Or maybe a stuffy, lackluster atmosphere puts a damper on the entire getaway.
    Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2024
Definition of stuffy
Adjective
  • Gein was born in 1906 to an alcoholic father and an allegedly fanatically puritanical mother, according to the MGM+ docuseries Psycho: The Lost Tapes of Ed Gein.
    Jordana Comiter, People.com, 23 Nov. 2024
  • Salman seems more inclined than his predecessor to appease the ultraconservative and puritanical Wahhabi clerical establishment and other conservative Islamist forces in the country.
    Richard Sokolsky, Foreign Affairs, 6 Jan. 2016
Definition of puritanical
Adjective
  • Even television, though, began to feel straitlaced.
    Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Doherty, then 19, became a superstar in the early ’90s playing the straitlaced but short-tempered Brenda Walsh as the show became a guilty pleasure for a generation.
    Ethan Sacks, NBC News, 14 July 2024
Definition of straitlaced
Adjective
  • But the Victorian farmstead is not just a capsule suspended in time.
    Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Urban Cowboy, Denver This 16-room boutique hotel also opened in October, 2024 in a Victorian style former 1880s mansion in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, and is the latest from the trendy Urban Cowboy brand with locations in Brooklyn, New York’s Catskills, and Nashville.
    Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
Definition of Victorian
Adjective
  • At Prada’s fall/winter 2024 show, these satin kitten heels were especially prim and proper with their criss-cross detailing and subtle diamanté embellishment.
    Laura Jackson, Vogue, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Is she meant to be read as a little prim and repressed?
    Rachel Handler, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2024
Definition of prim
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Thesaurus Entries Near priggish

priggery

priggish

priggishly

See More Nearby Entries 

Cite this Entry

“Priggish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/priggish. Accessed 10 Dec. 2024.

Copy Citation

Share

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!

Popular in Grammar & Usage

See All

Using Bullet Points ( • )

Point of View: It's Personal

Plural and Possessive Names: A Guide

What's the difference between 'fascism' and 'socialism'?

More Commonly Misspelled Words
See All

Popular in Wordplay

See All

8 Words with Fascinating Histories

8 Words for Lesser-Known Musical Instruments

Birds Say the Darndest Things

10 Scrabble Words Without Any Vowels

12 More Bird Names that Sound Like Insults (and Sometimes Are)
See All

Games & Quizzes

See All
Play Quordle: Guess all four words in a limited number of tries. Each of your guesses must be a real 5-letter word.
Quordle Can you solve 4 words at once?
Play Blossom: Solve today's spelling word game by finding as many words as you can using just 7 letters. Longer words score more points.
Blossom Word Game Pick the best words!
Play Missing Letter: a crossword with a twist. Each of the 25 puzzle words start with a different letter of the alphabet. Which letter is missing?
Missing Letter A daily crossword with a twist
speech-bubble-untangle
Simplify The Convoluted Expression Quiz A quiz that’s as “uncomplicated as a round de...