PRIDEFUL

exultant, exulting, jubilant, prideful, rejoicing, triumphal, triumphant

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

disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering

(adjective) 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

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

prideful (comparative more prideful, superlative most prideful)

(chiefly Scotland, North America) Full of pride; haughty, arrogant.

Synonyms

• arrogant, disdainful, haughty

Source: Wiktionary


Pride"ful, a.

Definition: Full of pride; haughty. Tennyson.

– Pride"ful*ly, adv.

– Pride"ful-ness, n.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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