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Prideful

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Adjective

1. disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering

having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy

Example Sentences:
'some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines'
'haughty aristocrats'
'his lordly manners were offensive'
'walked with a prideful swagger'
'very sniffy about breaches of etiquette'
'his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air'
'a more swaggering mood than usual'

2. exultant, exulting, jubilant, prideful, rejoicing, triumphal, triumphant

joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success

Example Sentences:
'rejoicing crowds filled the streets on VJ Day'
'a triumphal success'
'a triumphant shout'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Prideful

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noun
1. 
a feeling of honour and self-respect; a sense of personal worth
2. 
excessive self-esteem; conceit
3. 
a source of pride
4. 
satisfaction or pleasure taken in one's own or another's success, achievements, etc (esp in the phrase take (a) pride in)
5. 
the better or most superior part of something; flower
6. 
the most flourishing time
7. 
a group (of lions)
8. 
the mettle of a horse; courage; spirit
9. archaic
sexual desire, esp in a female animal
10. archaic
display, pomp, or splendour
11.  pride of place
verb
12. (tr; foll by on or upon)
to take pride in (oneself) for
13. (intransitive)
to glory or revel (in)
noun
Thomas. died 1658, English soldier on the Parliamentary side during the Civil War. He expelled members of the Long Parliament hostile to the army (Pride's Purge, 1648) and signed Charles I's death warrant

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Prideful

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Thomasdied 1658; Eng. army officer: in 1648 brought about the expulsion (Pride's Purge) of over 100 Royalist & Presbyterian Members of Parliament
noun
1. 
a. 
an unduly high opinion of oneself; exaggerated self-esteem; conceit
b. 
haughty behavior resulting from this; arrogance
2. 
proper respect for oneself; sense of one's own dignity or worth; self-respect
3. 
delight or satisfaction in one's own or another's achievements, in associations, etc.
4. 
a person or thing in which pride is taken
5. 
the best of a class, group, society, etc.; pick; flower
6. 
the best part; prime
in the pride of manhood
7. 
mettle (in a horse)
8. 
a. 
a group or family (of lions)
b.  Informal
any impressive group
9.  Archaic
a. 
magnificence; splendor
b. 
ornament
10.  Obsolete
sexual desire
verb transitiveWord forms: ˈprided or ˈpriding
11.  Rare
to make proud

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Prideful

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adj.
1. Arrogant; disdainful.
2. Highly pleased; elated.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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