PROUD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does proud mean? 

• PROUD (adjective)
  The adjective PROUD has 2 senses:

1. feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride

2. having or displaying great dignity or nobility

  Familiarity information: PROUD used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROUD (adjective)

Comparative: prouder   
Superlative: proudest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride

Context example:

proud princes

Similar:

arrogant; chesty; self-important (having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride)

beaming (pleased and proud)

big; swelled; vainglorious (feeling self-importance)

bigheaded; persnickety; snooty; snot-nosed; snotty; stuck-up; too big for one's breeches; uppish ((used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant)

big; boastful; braggart; bragging; braggy; cock-a-hoop; crowing; self-aggrandising; self-aggrandizing (exhibiting self-importance)

dignified; self-respectful; self-respecting (having or showing self-esteem)

disdainful; haughty; imperious; lordly; overbearing; prideful; sniffy; supercilious; swaggering (having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy)

conceited; egotistic; egotistical; self-conceited; swollen; swollen-headed; vain (characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance)

house-proud (proud of your house or its furnishings or upkeep)

overproud (excessively proud)

pleased; proud of (feeling pleasurable satisfaction over something by which you measures your self-worth)

purse-proud (proud or arrogant because of your wealth (especially in the absence of other distinction))

shabby-genteel (trying to maintain dignity and self respect despite shabbiness)

Also:

immodest (having or showing an exaggerated opinion of your importance, ability, etc)

Attribute:

pride (the trait of being spurred on by a dislike of falling below your standards)

Antonym:

humble (marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having or displaying great dignity or nobility

Synonyms:

gallant; lofty; majestic; proud

Context example:

proud alpine peaks

Similar:

impressive (making a strong or vivid impression)

 Context examples 

I cannot think that any family in the land would not be proud to take you among them, seeing that you come of so old a strain.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But if you wish me to love you, could you but see how much I do love you, you would be proud and content.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

And Amy went on with her work, in the proud consciousness of virtue and the successful utterance of two long words in a breath.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It could be a project that will take longer to finish than you anticipated, but one you will someday say you are so proud to have completed.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The Scarecrow was now the ruler of the Emerald City, and although he was not a Wizard the people were proud of him.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Yet he was so proud and had such a grand manner of talking, that no one dared to offer him a cloak or a meal.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His bright proud eye spoke the conviction that he was nice; and Anne Elliot was not out of his thoughts, when he more seriously described the woman he should wish to meet with.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I am proud when I reflect on it, and I think it must establish me in your good opinion.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I intimated that my aunt would be proud and delighted to make their acquaintance; though I must say I was not quite sure of their getting on very satisfactorily together.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He was a success himself, and proud of it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)