old-maidish

1. 1.

   primly fastidious

   Synonymsold-womanish

   Similarfastidious

Questions about old-maidish

What does old-maidish mean?

old-maidish means "primly fastidious".

How many syllables are in old-maidish?

old-maidish has 3 syllables: old--mai-dish. The stress falls on "old-".

What is another word for old-maidish?

Close synonyms include old-womanish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is old-maidish a common word?

old-maidish is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.