324 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ pɹˈɪɡɪʃ], [ pɹˈɪɡɪʃ], [ p_ɹ_ˈɪ_ɡ_ɪ_ʃ]

Similar words for priggish:

• all (adjective)
• fastidious (adjective)
• genteel (adjective)
• inkhorn (adjective)
• old-maidish (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• pedantic (adjective)
• precise (adjective)
• prim (adjective)
• proper (adjective)
• prudish (adjective)
• smug (adjective)
• stiff (adjective)
• strait-laced (adjective)
• stuffy (adjective)
• other relevant words (noun)
• other synonyms
• Victorian
• prudish
• other relevant words (noun)

Synonyms for Priggish:

• adj.

  • all (adjective)
  • straight-laced,
  • straightlaced,
  • prudish,
  • priggish,
  • straitlaced,
  • prissy,
  • square-toed,
  • tight-laced.
  • fastidious (adjective)
  • finicky,
  • accurate,
  • epicurean,
  • hypercritical,
  • rigorous,
  • discriminating,
  • persnickety,
  • delicate,
  • diligent,
  • choosy,
  • exacting,
  • particular,
  • fussy,
  • literal,
  • severe,
  • mincing,
  • flawless,
  • conscientious,
  • punctilious,
  • methodical,
  • discerning,
  • careful,
  • squeamish,
  • picky,
  • critical,
  • dainty,
  • Qualmish,
  • perspicacious,
  • demanding,
  • correct,
  • scrupulous,
  • fastidious,
  • meticulous.
  • genteel (adjective)
  • distingue,
  • well-bred,
  • wellmannered.
  • inkhorn (adjective)
  • more formalistic,
  • most formalistic.
  • old-maidish (adjective)
  • oldmaidish.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • genteel,
  • hotshot,
  • nit-picking,
  • over-modest,
  • self-contented,
  • formalistic,
  • abstinent,
  • over-nice,
  • smug,
  • uncluttered,
  • spic-and-span,
  • stuck up,
  • prim,
  • head-strong,
  • proper,
  • goody-goody,
  • blue-nose,
  • stuffy,
  • strait-laced,
  • stuck on oneself,
  • schoolish,
  • donnish,
  • Pedantical,
  • precise,
  • puritanical,
  • Inkhorn,
  • overmodest,
  • Bluenose,
  • spic and span,
  • stiff,
  • pedantic.
  • pedantic (adjective)
  • more schoolish,
  • more hairsplitting,
  • more overnice,
  • most hairsplitting,
  • most nit picking,
  • most overnice,
  • most schoolish,
  • more nit-picking,
  • doctrinaire,
  • more nit picking,
  • nit picking,
  • over nice,
  • most nit-picking,
  • more donnish,
  • most donnish.
  • precise (adjective)
  • Stickling.
  • prim (adjective)
  • un-cluttered,
  • blue nose,
  • more blue-nose,
  • more blue nose,
  • un cluttered,
  • more uncluttered,
  • more spic and span,
  • more spic-and-span,
  • over modest,
  • more bluenose,
  • most spic-and-span,
  • de mure,
  • more overmodest,
  • most blue nose,
  • de-mure,
  • most bluenose,
  • wellgroomed,
  • cleanliest,
  • well groomed,
  • cleanlier,
  • most overmodest,
  • most spic and span,
  • most blue-nose,
  • most uncluttered.
  • proper (adjective)
  • be fitting,
  • stoner,
  • by numbers,
  • be coming,
  • by the book,
  • in line.
  • prudish (adjective)
  • up tight,
  • most overexact,
  • narrowminded,
  • overexact,
  • more overexact,
  • most simpering,
  • narrow minded,
  • up-tight,
  • over-exact,
  • over exact,
  • more simpering.
  • smug (adjective)
  • most self-contented,
  • more self-contented,
  • most self contented,
  • puffedup,
  • self contented,
  • selfcontented,
  • selfsatisfied,
  • most hotshot,
  • more hotshot,
  • more selfcontented,
  • stuck oneself,
  • stuckup,
  • self satisfied,
  • more self contented,
  • most selfcontented.
  • stiff (adjective)
  • un-graceful,
  • un relenting,
  • un-gainly,
  • un relaxed,
  • un easy,
  • un-easier,
  • un-relaxed,
  • un gainliest,
  • un easier,
  • unrelaxed,
  • hardheaded,
  • un easiest,
  • in tractable,
  • most unrelaxed,
  • un-easiest,
  • un gainly,
  • more unrelaxed,
  • un-natural,
  • most hardheaded,
  • un gainlier,
  • in-tractable,
  • un graceful.
  • strait-laced (adjective)
  • strait laced.
  • stuffy (adjective)
  • puffy,
  • humorless.

• n.

  •
  • plain,
  • prim and proper.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • characteristic.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • old-maidish,
  • bluenosed.
  • Victorian
  • victorian.
  • prudish
  • Missish.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • derisive,
  • sticky-fingered,
  • hypocritical,
  • damnatory,
  • sentimental,
  • pretentious,
  • squared-toe,
  • self-confident,
  • namby-pamby,
  • self-flattering,
  • Vilifying,
  • thieving,
  • soi-disant,
  • condescending,
  • egotistic,
  • Reprobative,
  • Execrative,
  • invective,
  • precious,
  • condemnatory,
  • denunciatory,
  • decorous,
  • proud,
  • pragmatical,
  • hidebound,
  • pious,
  • snotty,
  • stodgy,
  • conventional,
  • overnice,
  • sniffy,
  • discriminative,
  • self-righteous,
  • deprecatory,
  • haughty,
  • rigid,
  • snooty,
  • deprecative,
  • ceremonious,
  • Execrating,
  • vain,
  • formal,
  • conformist,
  • self-satisfied,
  • staid,
  • Starched,
  • Self-glorious,
  • patronizing,
  • selective,
  • perfectionist,
  • Finikin,
  • self-admiring,
  • bashful,
  • purist,
  • holier-than-thou,
  • Canting,
  • starch,
  • twee,
  • self-important,
  • puritan,
  • toffee-nosed,
  • mealy-mouthed,
  • pure,
  • pompous,
  • stiff-necked,
  • self-sufficient,
  • depreciative,
  • self-loving,
  • snippy,
  • old-fogyish,
  • choicy,
  • uptight,
  • finical,
  • starchy,
  • disparaging,
  • moralistic,
  • light-fingered,
  • Barkbound,
  • superior,
  • Coxcomical,
  • contemptuous,
  • pietistic,
  • Inveighing,
  • narrow-minded,
  • prig,
  • Execratory,
  • strict,
  • hard,
  • sanctimonious,
  • egotistical,
  • censorious,
  • sensitive,
  • Reviling,
  • Ridiculing,
  • pharisaic,
  • stick-in-the-mud,
  • Self-complacent,
  • Pecksniffian,
  • puritanic,
  • high hat,
  • dandified,
  • Simpering,
  • conservative,
  • snobby,
  • nice,
  • foppish,
  • abusive,
  • Puristic,
  • boastful,
  • thievish,
  • self-centred,
  • blackening,
  • Objurgatory,
  • self-applauding,
  • reproachful,
  • old fashioned,
  • blameful,
  • larcenous,
  • self-opinionated,
  • constrained,
  • wrongheaded,
  • conceited,
  • demure,
  • narrow,
  • seemly,
  • snobbish,
  • entente,
  • complacent,
  • niminy-piminy,
  • perfectionistic,
  • scoffing,
  • arrogant,
  • decent,
  • fuddy-duddy,
  • Overwise,
  • stilted,
  • judgmental,
  • modest,
  • blue,
  • vituperative,
  • Quakerish,
  • pi.