prima

Speech parts

1. prima - Noun

2. prima - Adjective

3. prima - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

indicating the most important performer or role

used primarily as eating apples

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

leading star stellar starring prime primus first major great beginning evidence paramount before fundamental fine
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Antonyms

last off rotten minor ordinary lesser
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Hypernyms

eating apple dessert apple

Phrases with the word

prima facie urbs prima in indis prima-donna soprano

Anagrams

impar Pamir marip pamri Priam

Examples

A 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

Close letter words and terms

prim out prim up Prim-Dijkstra algorithm prima ballerina prima donna prima donnaish