Meaning & use

prissy

adjective·Everyday

Excessively concerned with proper, neat, or polite behavior, often in an annoying way.

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Her prissy insistence on perfect table manners made family dinners feel tense.

He was too prissy to join the mud run with the rest of the team.

A note on using this word

Prissy is informal and mildly critical, suggesting someone is overly fussy about small details or manners.

Words with a similar meaning

fussyprimfinicky

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Words with an opposite meaning

easygoingrelaxed

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