English Dictionary

prim

IPA（発音記号）

/pɹɪm/

形容詞

prudish, straight-laced / formal; precise; affectedly neat or nice

日本語の意味

うとましいほど堅苦しく、過度に礼儀正しい / 形式張った、細部にまでこだわりすぎた / 正確さや几帳面さを過剰に求める様子

Her prim manner made the lively café feel oddly restrained.

彼女の堅苦しい振る舞いのせいで、活気のあるカフェが不思議と窮屈に感じられた。

意味（1）

prudish, straight-laced

God damn it, what does she want of me, this sad, beautiful bridgeplayer of the Fifth Floor, with her air of lost love and her prim carnality? After seven years of her, Brotherhood still had no idea. He'd be out touring the stations, he'd be in Bongabonga land. He'd not speak or write to her for months. Yet he'd hardly unpacked his toothbrush before she was in his arms, demanding him with her sad and hungry eyes.

意味（2）

formal; precise; affectedly neat or nice

prim regularity; a prim person

primmer （ comparative ）

primmest （ superlative ）