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Staid vs Prissy - What's the difference?

staid | prissy |

As a noun staid

is trail, track or staid can be stately woman.

As a proper noun prissy is

a diminutive of the female given name priscilla.

staid

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Serious, organized, and professional; sober
  • * 1915 , ":
  • *:He wondered what had become of the boys who were his companions: they were nearly thirty now; some would be dead, but others were married and had children; they were soldiers and parsons, doctors, lawyers; they were staid men who were beginning to put youth behind them.
  • Always fixed in the same location; stationary

    • Synonyms

    * (serious) composed, regular, sedate, steady

    Antonyms

    * (serious) fanciful, volatile, wild

    Anagrams

    * ----

    prissy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • excessively prim, proper, particular or fussy
  • * 1949 , Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister
    • She was a small, neat, rather prissy -looking girl with primly smooth brown hair and rimless glasses
  • * 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club Cabin Boy [http://www.avclub.com/articles/cabin-boy,71269/]
    • As Nathanial Mayweather, heir to the Mayweather Hotel fortune, Elliott doesn’t disdain the hoi polloi so much as he considers everyone, even the faculty and headmaster at the prissiest private school in existence, to be part of it.
  • well-mannered, well-behaved

    • Derived terms

    * priss

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