Proud

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Feeling pleasurable satisfaction over an act, possession, quality, or relationship by which one measures one's stature or self-worth: proud of one's child; proud to serve one's country.
  • adj. Occasioning or being a reason for pride: "On January 1, 1900, Americans and Europeans greeted the twentieth century in the proud and certain belief that the next hundred years would make all things possible” ( W. Bruce Lincoln).
  • adj. Feeling or showing justifiable self-respect.
  • adj. Filled with or showing excessive self-esteem.
  • adj. Of great dignity; honored: a proud name.
  • adj. Majestic; magnificent: proud alpine peaks.
  • adj. Spirited. Used of an animal: proud steeds.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Gratified; feeling honoured (by something); feeling satisfied or happy about a fact or event.
  • adj. Possessed of a due sense of what one is worth or deserves.
  • adj. Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious.
  • adj. Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride.
  • adj. Brave, valiant; gallant.
  • adj. Standing out or raised; swollen.
  • adj. Excited by sexual desire; (of female animals) in heat.
  • adj. Happy, usually used with a sense of honor, as in "I'm so proud to have you in our town." But occasionally just plain happy as in "I'm proud to see gas prices down." This is a widespread colloquial usage in the southern United States.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense.
  • adj. Possessing or showing too great self-esteem; overrating one's excellences; hence, arrogant; haughty; lordly; presumptuous.
  • adj. Having a feeling of high self-respect or self-esteem; exulting (in); elated; -- often with of.
  • adj. Giving reason or occasion for pride or self-gratulation; worthy of admiration; grand; splendid; magnificent; admirable; ostentatious.
  • adj. Excited by sexual desire; -- applied particularly to the females of some animals.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having or cherishing a high opinion of one's own merits; showing great or lofty self-esteem; expecting great deference or consideration; haughty; full of pride.
  • Having a worthy and becoming sense of what is due to one's self; self-respecting: as, too proud to beg.
  • Priding one's self; having high satisfaction; elated: as, proud to serve a cause.
  • Proceeding from pride; daring; dignified.
  • Of fearless or untamable spirit; full of vigor or mettle.
  • Giving reason or occasion for pride, congratulation, or boasting; suggesting or exciting pride; ostentatious; grand; gorgeous; magnificent.
  • Full; high; swelled.
  • Stately, noble. See references under pride.
  • To be proud or haughty.
  • To be full of spirit or animation; be gay.
  • To be excited by sexual desire.
  • To make or render proud.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. having or displaying great dignity or nobility
  • adj. feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride
  • Equivalent
    Antonym
    ashamed   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    haughty    lordly    presumptuous    elated    grand    splendid    magnificent    admirable    ostentatious    arrogant   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Loud    Macleod    Mcleod    allowed    aloud    avowed    bowed    browed    cloud    cowed   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    haughty    young    noble    angry    happy