Synonyms Dictionary
6. preacher, evangelist, missionary, Usu. Disparaging. pulpiteer; sermonizer, sermonist, Obs. Rare, ser-moneer. priesthood, n. 1. prelacy, episcopacy; clericality, clericalism, episcopalianism, sacerdotalism, ultramon-tanism; vocation, call, calling, sacred calling, holy orders.
2. the clergy, the ministry, the cloth, the pulpit, the desk. priestly, adj. clerical, canonical, sacerdotal, prelat-ic, pastoral, ministerial, ecclesiastic, ultramontane; churchly, priestlike. prig, n. prude, puritan, bluenose; snob, intellectual snob, Disparaging, highbrow; pedant, precisionist, purist, formalist; fussbudget, fusspot, Inf. fuddy-duddy, carper, caviler, pettifogger, faultfinder, Inf. nitpicker. priggish, adj. 1. prudish, puritanical, bluenosed, overmodest, old-maidish; hidebound, strait-laced, stiff, stiff-necked, strict, severe, formal; snobbish, stilted, Inf. high-hat, SI. snooty, SI. snotty; smug, sanctimonious, Inf. stuffy; fastidious, punctilious, fussy; censorious, reproachful, condemnatory, disparaging, contemptuous; carping, caviling, pettifogging, faultfinding, Inf. nitpicking; pedantic, puristic, formalistic, precisionistic.
2. overnice, precious, prlcieux, namby-pamby, Inf. goody-goody, Inf. nice-Nelly, Brit. SI. twee. priggishness, n. 1. prudery, prudishness, puritanicalness, overmodesty, old-maidishness, Grundyism; hideboundness, strait-lacedness, buckram, stiffness, stiff-neckedness, strictness, severity, formality; snobbery, snobbishness, stiltedness, SI. snootiness, SI. snottiness; smugness, sanctimony, Inf. stuffiness; fastidiousness, punctiliousness, fussiness, censoriousness, reproachfulness, contemptuousness; pedantry, purism, formalism, precisionism.
2. overniceness, preciousness, namby-pambyism, Inf. goody-goodyism, Inf. nice-Nellyism. prim, adj. starched, rigid, stiff, formal, Inf. tight; strait-laced, stiff-necked, hidebound, in buckram; prudish, priggish, puritanical, squeamish; exact, exacting, punctilious, fastidious, scrupulous. primal, adj. 1. primary, prime, initial, initiative, first, premier, opening; pristine, earliest, early.
2. original, aboriginal, autochthonal, autochthonous; primitive, primordial, primigenial; incipient, beginning, germinal, embryonic, embryonal, genetic, ge-netical, nascent.
3. primeval, archaic, fossil, fossillike, fossilized; ancient, antiquated, antique, oldest, old, aged; prehistoric, preadamic, Noachian, Noachic, Noachical, antediluvian, before the Flood or Deluge; eolithic, Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic.
4. principal, main, major, meat-and-potatoes, central, most important; head, capital, chief, cardinal, paramount; prominent, dominant, predominant, hegemonic, prevailing; crucial, vital, critical, significant, consequential, momentous.
5. fundamental, basic, radical, root, elemental, underlying; essential, indispensable, necessary, needed; elementary, rudimentary, rudimental, inchoate. primarily, adv. 1. above all, first and foremost, in the first place, to begin with; essentially, in essence, fundamentally, basically, in substance, at heart, at the core, at bottom, Fr. au fond; especially, particularly; chiefly, mainly, in the main, mostly, for the most part, principally, predominately, on the whole.
2. at first, at the beginning, in the beginning, originally, initially; from the beginning, from the start, Inf. from the word go, Latin, ab ini to, Latin, ab orgine, Latin, ab ovo.
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