proud

Speech parts

1. proud - Adjective

3. proud - Adjective Satellite

4. Proud - Proper noun

Meaning

Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense

Possessing or showing too great self-esteem; overrating one's excellences; hence, arrogant; haughty; lordly; presumptuous.

Having a feeling of high self-respect or self-esteem; exulting (in); elated; -- often with of; as, proud of one's country.

Giving reason or occasion for pride or self-gratulation; worthy of admiration; grand; splendid; magnificent; admirable; ostentatious.

Excited by sexual desire; -- applied particularly to the females of some animals.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

vain arrogant conceited content happy honored pleased glad lofty haughty cocky egotistical presumptuous snobbish self-important
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Antonyms

humble meek modest embarrassed humiliated ashamed
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Related terms

prude pride prideful

Phrases with the word

be proud as proud as lucifer as proud as punch as proud as a peacock be proud of oneself for accomplishment to be proud of

Anagrams

pudor

Examples

A proud monk needs no demon. He has turned into one, an enemy to himself. John Climacus

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit. Demosthenes

When God sees that we are proud and arrogant, He allows for the presence of temptations in our life. He will take them away from us, only when He sees that we humble ourselves. Paisios of Mount Athos

An oil lamp feels proud to give light even though it wears itself away. Nigerian Proverb

The son shoots a leopard; the father is proud. African Congo Proverb

A turtle is not proud of his long neck. Malian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

protyl protyle protype proud as a peacock proud as Lucifer proud as Punch