prideful English

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What does prideful mean?

prideful

— adjective (= rejoicing, triumphal, triumphant) joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success rejoicing crowds filled the streets on VJ Day a triumphal success a triumphant shout

— adjective (= disdainful, haughty, lordly, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering) having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy 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 — W.L.Shirer

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proud

triumphant

triumphal

rejoicing

overbearing

lordly

jubilant

haughty

exulting

exultant

arrogant

swaggering

supercilious

sniffy

imperious

disdainful

boastful

uppish

toplofty

supercillious

proud of

overweening

lofty

insolent

elated

conceited

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Proud

• What words describe someone who is proud?
  proud aloof arrogant bigheaded boastful brash conceited contemptuous egocentric egotistic egotistical hoity-toity imperious inflated lofty ostentatious pretentious prideful proud hearted puffed up self-aggrandizing self-confident uppity vain