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prideful

prideful

8 6.1
Feeling or acting as if you are better than other people
  • adjective
  • /ˈpraɪd.fəl/
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  • His prideful attitude made it difficult for him to accept any form of criticism.
  • prideful self

This is where you get prideful and I was wrong.

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Examples

  • I'm sure you mean well, but your entire comment is prideful and arrogant.

    Blog text (8)
  • Then he stepped aside in a way that was both prideful and self-mocking.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • Maybe he will stop being so prideful and consider the truth at some point.

    Blog text (28)
  • The Society is not prideful enough to try to add to it.

    Blog text (6)
  • To think I can say anything that can convince anybody is prideful on my part.

    Blog text (33)
  • So the prideful who are always lifting themselves up were pressed down by great rocks.

  • And the Elder says, "Sir, I know you're old, but that is no excuse for being prideful."

  • It's that he became stubborn and prideful and mistakes his stubbornness for principle.

    Blog text (5)
  • Don't be so prideful.

  • I bet you don't even realize how prideful and arrogant you are and how you constantly act, like you're too good to be here.

Synonyms

arrogant
vsprideful
260 4.5

Behaving as if you are more important or better than other people

is excessive self-importance that may not be overbearing or disrespectful
smug
vsprideful
85 5.2

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

is excessive self-importance more about superiority and disdain than self-satisfaction
overbearing
vsprideful
30 5.8

Being proud and trying to control other people

is excessive self-importance which can be less controlling than this
conceited
vsprideful
24 5.4

Thinking you are much better than other people

is excessive self-importance stressing superiority and contempt rather than self-opinion
egotistical
vsprideful
  • Offensive
24 6.6

Seeing yourself as much more important than other people

is excessive self-importance aimed at superiority and disdain rather than self-interest
haughty
vsprideful
14 8.1

Acting proud and looking down on other people

is broader excessive self-importance rather than focused contempt for others
imperious
vsprideful
8 8.4

Acting like you are better than others and expecting them to obey you

is excessive self-importance that may not demand obedience or domination
disdainful
vsprideful
8 7.0

Showing that you think someone or something is not worth respect

is excessive self-importance centered on superiority, not only contempt
boastful
vsprideful
7 3.7

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

is excessive self-importance that can exist without verbal bragging
supercilious
vsprideful
4 8.9

Acting as if you are better than other people

is general excessive self-importance rather than cold superiority
swaggering
vsprideful
2 7.0

To act very confident and proud to get attention

is excessive self-importance that focuses on superiority rather than mere showiness
hubristic
vsprideful
  • Formal
1 8.4

Being too proud and too sure of yourself so you ignore advice and make bad decisions

is excessive self-importance focused on superiority and disdain rather than confidence
egotistic
vsprideful
  • Offensive
1 7.2

Thinking you are more important than other people

is excessive self-importance that targets others more than inward focus
proud as a peacock
vsprideful
  • Informal
1 7.4

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

is excessive self-importance that also implies superiority and disdain, not only showiness
triumphalist
vsprideful
1 8.2

Showing too much pride after a win that annoys others

is excessive self-importance not limited to celebrating success or victory
sniffy
vsprideful
1 8.5

Acting as if you are better than other people

is excessive self-importance that may not appear as scornful dismissal
lordly
vsprideful
1 8.0

Acting very proud and treating others as unimportant

is excessive self-importance without necessarily treating people as unworthy
self-conceited
vsprideful
7.7

Thinking you are better than other people

is excessive self-importance aimed at others rather than mere vanity
overproud
vsprideful
7.2

Believing you are better than other people and acting like it

is excessive self-importance carrying arrogant disdain toward other people

Antonyms

222 2.8

Not proud and not thinking you are better than others

81 2.7

Not thinking you are better than others and not boasting

How Arrogant

overbearing
30 5.8
haughty
14 8.1
arrogant
260 4.5
prideful
8 6.1

Surface Forms

prideful positive
pridefuller comparative
pridefullest superlative

Morphology

prideful = pride (semi-transparent) = pride + ful

Formed from 'pride' + '-ful' but the sense 'arrogant, disdainful' adds a negative evaluative nuance that is not fully predictable from 'full of pride'.

Etymology

Prideful comes from the simple word pride, like the everyday word proud. Imagine someone holding their head very high and looking down on others. That's why prideful can mean 'arrogant' or 'thinking you are better than others'.