| Verb | 1. | prim - assume a prim appearance; "They mince and prim"change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" | |
| 2. | prim - contract one's lips; "She primmed her lips after every bite of food" | |
| 3. | prim - dress primly | |
| Adj. | 1. | prim - affectedly dainty or refinedrefined - used of persons and their behavior; cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste" | |
| 2. | prim - exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"priggish, prissy, prudish, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian, puritanical proper - marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness; "proper medical treatment"; "proper manners" | |