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Parochial vs Priggish - What's the difference?

parochial | priggish |

As adjectives the difference between parochial and priggish

is that parochial is pertaining to a parish while priggish is like a prig.

parochial

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to a parish.
  • Characterized by an unsophisticated focus on local concerns to the exclusion of wider contexts; elementary in scope or outlook.
    • The use of simple, primary colors in the painting gave it a parochial feel .
    Some people in the United States have been accused of taking a parochial view, of not being interested in international matters.
  • * 1918 , 1st of February, "
    • But for men of principle and honour and straightforward thought there could be no middle course and no paltering with petty issues of party or parochial advantage.
  • * 1969 , : A History of the Scottish People 1560-1830 , p 341:
    • Its atmosphere might have been provincial, but it was never merely parochial .

    Related terms

    * parochial school * parochial vicar * parochialism ----

    priggish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Like a prig.

    • Synonyms

    * (like a prig) prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical

    Derived terms

    * priggishly * priggishness