Synonyms and Antonyms of prim
1
being clean and in good order
- behind the bed-and-breakfast is a prim little garden where guests are served afternoon tea
antiseptic, bandbox, crisp, groomed, kempt, neat, orderly, picked up, shipshape, smug, snug, tidied, tidy, trig, trim, uncluttered, well-groomed
dapper, natty, saucy, smart, spiffy, spruce
immaculate, spick-and-span (or spic-and-span), spotless
rakish, sleek, streamlined, taut
organized, straight, systematic
scruffy, seedy, shabby, slipshod, sloppy
dirty, filthy, foul, nasty, sordid, squalid
dowdy, frowsy (or frowzy), rumpled, tousled, tumbled
disorganized, unsystematic
2
given to or marked by very conservative standards regarding personal behavior or morals
- a very prim and proper matron was in charge of the girls' dorm
priggish, staid, stuffy
genteel, proper, refined
decent, honest, moral, right, righteous, upright, virtuous
liberated, permissive
bad, immoral, improper, indecent, lax, lecherous, lickerish, loose, prurient, wicked
skanky [slang], slatternly, sleazy, sluttish, slutty, trampy
debauched, degenerate, degraded, depraved, perverted
