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😏 Arrogant or superior 🏅 Full of self-respect
prideful

prideful

3 6.0
Feeling very happy and satisfied because of an achievement
  • adjective
  • /ˈpraɪd.fəl/
translation icon : orgulloso
  • Confronting one's own prejudices is never easy, especially for a person as prideful as Mim, but she was trying, and her efforts to unearth this portion of Monticello's buried history were commendable.
  • very prideful
  • prideful identity

You can think about Aristotle and the great soul person, the prideful person who is indeed worthy of great honors, demands them.

Examples

  • Joan proves throughout that she can be prideful and impulsive, often selfish and more than a little vindictive.

    Blog text (30)

  • We are a prideful people.

    Blog text (15)

  • I am a prideful person.

    Blog text (13)

  • We all tend to be selfish and prideful.

    Blog text (22)

  • Reyes felt another prideful twinge, but could not act upon it.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • One teacher described the students' experience with community audiences as purposeful, prideful, and motivating.

    Academic text (2015)

  • She felt prideful when she received the award for her hard work.

  • After winning the championship, the team felt prideful of their achievement.

  • He was prideful about the role he played in the project's success.

Synonyms

proud
vsprideful
∞ 1.0

Feeling very pleased and good about something you or someone close did

is stronger, showing a more intense sense of self-satisfaction
smug
vsprideful
85 5.2

A person who feels too pleased with themselves in a way that annoys others

is more neutral and may avoid irritating others despite strong self-respect
triumphant
vsprideful
58 3.7

Feeling very happy and proud after a win or success

is used more generally, not only tied to victory or success
conceited
vsprideful
24 5.4

Thinking you are much better than other people

is based more on achievements and self-respect rather than arrogant self-opinion
boastful
vsprideful
7 3.7

Being too proud of achievements or skills in a way that annoys others

is more about inward satisfaction while this is outward bragging
mighty proud
vsprideful
  • Informal
3 6.1

Feeling very proud because of something you did

is intense but a bit less extreme in overall tone
triumphal
vsprideful
1 6.5

Showing great joy and pride after a big success

is broader, applying to strong self-satisfaction beyond great victories
triumphalist
vsprideful
1 8.2

Showing too much pride after a win that annoys others

is strong but lacks the excessive celebratory or offensive behaviour
proud as a peacock
vsprideful
  • Informal
1 7.4

Being very pleased with yourself and showing it in a loud, showy way

is more showy and attention-seeking than internal self-satisfaction
overproud
vsprideful
7.2

Believing you are better than other people and acting like it

is strongly self-satisfied but often without excessive behaviour

Antonyms

humble
222 2.8

Not proud and not thinking you are better than others

self-deprecating
18 6.0

Making jokes about your own faults to seem modest

How Proud

boastful
7 3.7
prideful
3 6.0
proud
∞ 1.0
pleased
936 1.0
content
108 1.0

Surface Forms

prideful positive

Morphology

prideful = pride (transparent) = pride + ful

Directly formed from 'pride' + '-ful' meaning 'full of pride' (self-respect or satisfaction), which is straightforward for learners to derive.

Etymology

Prideful comes from pride, like the everyday word proud, which can mean a warm, happy feeling after success. Think of someone smiling with a quiet pleasure after a job well done. That's why prideful can mean 'feeling proud' or 'full of self-respect'.