1. prima - Noun
2. prima - Adjective
3. prima - Adjective Satellite
indicating the most important performer or role
used primarily as eating apples
Source: WordNetA good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering. Freeman Dyson
All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated. George S. Patton
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out. Barbara Walters
Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna. E. M. Forster
In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it. Toni Morrison
Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one. Dan Rather