pride
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7.1
- noun
- /praɪd/
- Literature
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soberbia
- His excessive pride often leads him to ignore the advice of others.
- pride and arrogance
- sin of pride
- pride and envy
The proper place for pride is in wisdom.
- The proper place for pride is in wisdom.
- That's true yes and you know pride often stems from insecurity.
- Some of y'all, y'all let your pride get in the way, right?
- Like, I now see that my pride was stopping me.
- Do not let your fear or pride get in the way.
- A Mammon and the spirit of Leviathan, the spirit of pride, runs politics.
- It's like, well, that's pride, that's arrogance.
- Every bad decision I've ever made was based on my pride, every single one of them.
- What if someone has too much pride to seek out a coach that's real?
- Even the great must fall inflated pride must be flattened.
- My entire ego, all of my pride was around getting better.
- Are you more worried about pride or progress pride and really foolish pride?
- So humility is is not is is keeping pride at Bay, right?
Examples
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Christians should never take pride in being engaged in a culture war.
Academic text (1996) -
I have my pride, you know.
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I still have my pride, you know.
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The old man himself was frightened, but his pride had the better of him.
Fiction book (1991) -
The proper place for pride is in wisdom.
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Leave aside issues of pride; the accuracy of your work is what counts.
Academic text (1995) -
And then that's when I realized, wow, my pride was in the wrong thing.
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To swallow their pride to ask for help, that is bravery itself.
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Understandably, it became a matter of pride for a teacher to proclaim, "I teach the elements."
Academic text (1993) -
To see clearly means to see without passions, without the passion of pride, of hatred, and of contempt.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
133
4.8
Being too proud and acting as if you are better than others
56
5.6
Extreme pride in how you look or what you can do
39
8.9
Extreme pride that makes someone ignore danger and fail
10
8.0
Too much pride in yourself and your abilities
9
5.7
Being too pleased with yourself in a way that annoys others
1
9.9
Too much pride in your successes or looks that makes you show off
1
7.4
Feeling that you are much better than other people
Thinking you are much better or more important than other people
Being too proud of your appearance or abilities
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
A small tree with bright red and yellow flowers often grown in gardens for its beauty
A tree from warm countries with large bright flowers often grown for shade and decoration
A South American tree with feather-like leaves and bright yellow flowers grown for decoration
A small bush from California with large pink or purple flowers that people grow in gardens
How Proud
- Literature
39
8.9
- Literature
144
7.1
647
1.8
183
3.5
105
3.8
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pride This sense of 'pride' shows the bad side of feeling proud and means 'too high an opinion of yourself', and it comes from the same root as proud. That's why people call excessive pride a fault or sin.