adj
Meaning 1
Full of pride.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, Scotland, US
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: arrogant, disdainful, haughty
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
prideful
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UK: /ˈpɹʌɪdfəl/
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adj
Meaning 2
Taking pride in something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, Scotland, US
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- rejoicing crowds filled the streets on VJ Day
- a triumphal success
- a triumphant shout
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: exultant, exulting, jubilant, rejoicing, triumphal, triumphant
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy- W.L.Shirer
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- 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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English pridefulle, prydefull, equivalent to pride + -ful.
Across languages
Translations
95 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: مَغْرُور (maḡrūr) — full of pride
- Arabic: فَخُور (faḵūr) — full of pride
- Bulgarian: високоме́рен (visokoméren) — full of pride
- Catalan: orgullós — full of pride
- Catalan: arrogant — full of pride
- Chinese Mandarin: 傲然 (àorán) — full of pride
- Chinese Mandarin: 驕傲 /骄傲 (jiāo'ào) — full of pride
- Czech: pyšný — full of pride
- Dutch: trots — full of pride
- Dutch: fier — full of pride
- Egyptian: q-A-A28-Aa17-Z1 (qꜣ sꜣ) — full of pride
- Esperanto: fiera — full of pride
- Esperanto: orgojla — full of pride
- Esperanto: aroganta — full of pride
- Faroese: errin — full of pride
- Faroese: erpin — full of pride
- Finnish: ylpeä — full of pride
- Finnish: koppava — full of pride
- Finnish: kopea — full of pride
- Finnish: ylimielinen — full of pride
- French: orgueilleux — full of pride
- West-Frisian: rom — full of pride
- West-Frisian: grutsk — full of pride
- Galician: orgulloso — full of pride
- Galician: arrogante — full of pride
- Georgian: ამაყი (amaq̇i) — full of pride
- Georgian: ამპარტავანი (amṗarṭavani) — full of pride
- German: stolz — full of pride
- Ancient Greek: γαῦρος (gaûros) — full of pride
- Hindi: घमंडी (ghamaṇḍī) — full of pride
- Hindi: अभिमानी (abhimānī) — full of pride
- Hindi: दंभी (dambhī) — full of pride
- Hungarian: dölyfös — full of pride
- Hungarian: kevély — full of pride
- Hungarian: felfuvalkodott — full of pride
- Hungarian: gőgös — full of pride
- Hungarian: önhitt — full of pride
- Hungarian: elbizakodott — full of pride
- Hungarian: öntelt — full of pride
- Ido: fiera — full of pride
- Indonesian: sombong — full of pride
- Irish: mórchúiseach — full of pride
- Irish: sotalach — full of pride
- Irish: postúil — full of pride
- Irish: uaibhreach — full of pride
- Italian: orgoglioso — full of pride
- Italian: fiero — full of pride
- Japanese: 自慢の (jiman no) — full of pride
- Japanese: 高慢な (kōman na) — full of pride
- Japanese: 傲慢な (gōman na) — full of pride
- Japanese: 自信過剰な (jishinkajō na) — full of pride
- Japanese: 傲然な (gōzen na) — full of pride
- Kazakh: тәкаппар (täkappar) — full of pride
- Kazakh: менмен (menmen) — full of pride
- Khmer: កំអួក (kɑmʼuək) — full of pride
- Khmer: ក្រអឺត (krɑɑʼəɨt) — full of pride
- Latin: superbus — full of pride
- Latin: celsus — full of pride
- Latvian: lepns — full of pride
- Latvian: augstprātīgs — full of pride
- Malay: sombong — full of pride
- Māori: whakatamatama — full of pride
- Norwegian: stolt — full of pride
- Old English: ofermōd — full of pride
- Persian: مغرور (maġrur) — full of pride
- Persian: فنوده (fanude) — full of pride
- Persian: خودبین — full of pride
- Persian: بدبروت (bad-borut) — full of pride
- Polish: dumny — full of pride
- Polish: wyniosły — full of pride
- Polish: zarozumiały — full of pride
- Portuguese: orgulhoso — full of pride
- Portuguese: soberbo — full of pride
- Romanian: mândru — full of pride
- Romanian: orgolios — full of pride
- Romanian: îngâmfat — full of pride
- Russian: го́рдый (górdyj) — full of pride
- Russian: зано́счивый (zanósčivyj) — full of pride
- Russian: высокоме́рный (vysokomérnyj) — full of pride
- Russian: надме́нный (nadménnyj) — full of pride
- Russian: спеси́вый (spesívyj) — full of pride
- Scottish Gaelic: àrdanach — full of pride
- Scottish Gaelic: pròiseil — full of pride
- Scottish Gaelic: uaibhreach — full of pride
- Serbo-Croatian: го̑рд — full of pride
- Serbo-Croatian: gȏrd — full of pride
- Lower Sorbian: gjardy — full of pride
- Spanish: soberbio — full of pride
- Spanish: soberbioso — full of pride
- Spanish: desvanecido (desus.) — full of pride
- Tajik: мағрур (maġrur) — full of pride
- Ottoman Turkish: بورونلو (burunlu) — full of pride
- Uzbek: magʻrur — full of pride
- Venetan: altièr — full of pride
- Venetan: inpenà — full of pride
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