Pride

Noun

 * 1) The quality or state of being proud; inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve and often contempt of others.
 * 2) A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; -- in a good sense.
 * 3) Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain; hubris.
 * 4) That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children etc.
 * 5)  The small European lamprey species Petromyzon branchialis.
 * 6) Show; ostentation; glory.
 * 7) Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory,
 * 8) Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness.
 * 9) Lust; sexual desire; especially, excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast.
 * 10)  A company of lions.

Verb

 * 1)  To take or experience pride in something, be proud of it.

Adjectives for Pride
absurd; adoring; amorous; arrogant; angry; aristocratic; barbarous; bounded; boyish; bubbling; calm; careful; bulldog; carnal; childish; civic; coeval; cold; commendable; competitive; conscious; considerable; contiguous; considerate; contemptible; craggy; daring; counterfeit; dark; defiant; delicious; demon; despairing; determined; disappointed; dormant; drooping; emulated; evident; excessive; exultant; fair; false; fantastical; fatuous; fiendish; fiery; firm; flattered; flowery; foamy; foolish; full-blown; garish; gay; generous; gentle; golden; gracious; grim; guiltless; hasty; haughty; heroic; hidden; high-blown; high-bred; holy; honest; housewifely; hurt; hypocritic; ignorant; imperial; inconsistent; indescribable; indomitable; inordinate; insolent; intellectual; interminable; intolerable; laudable; just; justifiable; legitimate; lingering; local; lofty; lovely; loyal; maiden; martial; masculine; matchless; maternal; melancholy; mingled; moderate; modest; monarchal; moral; morning; mortal; mortified; motley; much-vaunted; narrow; national; noble; obdurate; obstinate; offended; overweening; overwhelming; pardonable; particular; patrician; patriotic; personal; pertinacious; philosophic; piqued; piscatorial; pleasing; plunging; positive; pouting; prim; provincial; proper; purple; rapturous; reassuring; reflected; regal; ruthless; restless; reprehensible; retrospective; sad; sanctimonious; satisfactory; saucy; serpent; school-taught; secret; self-torturing; self-complacent; self-conscious; sensitive; shallow; sheltered; short-lived; signal; silent; single; snobbish; sober; special; spirited; splendid; spotless; stoic; stainless; stranded; stubborn; subdued; stupid; subtle; summer; sweet; tampering; tender; thankless; theatric; touchy; tyrannic; unendurable; ungenerous; unmix-ed; unsuspected; unvanquished; unwonted; vainglorious; vicarious; voluptuous; welling; wicked; worldly; womanly; wounded; wretched.

Verbs for Pride
awaken—; beam with—.; bloat with—; conceal—; flush with—; fortify—; glow with—; gratify—; humble—; injure—; lacerate—; pocket—; preserve—; reflect—; repress—; restrain—; rouse—; ruffle—; salve—; sting—; stir—; swallow—; swell with—; — animates; —armors; —bloats; —revolts; — supports.

Thesaurus
boast, boastfulness, brag, bunch, catch, celebrate, certitude, circumstance, cockiness, cocksureness, colony, conceit, condescendence, condescension, confidence, confidentness, congratulate, conviction, courage, crow, deadly sin, delight in, diamond, dignity, domineering, domineeringness, drift, drive, drove, egoism, egotism, envy, faith, felicitate, find, flock, flower, formality, gam, gang, gasconade, gem, glory in, gluttony, godsend, good thing, greed, gula, haughtiness, haughty airs, hauteur, heraldry, herd, high horse, hoity-toitiness, hoity-toity, honor, host, hubris, invidia, ira, jewel, kennel, litter, loftiness, lust, luxuria, overbearing pride, overbearingness, overconfidence, oversureness, overweening, overweening pride, overweeningness, pack, patronization, patronizing, patronizing attitude, pearl, pique, plum, plume, pod, poise, pomp, pomposity, positiveness, preen, pride and joy, prize, proudness, purse-pride, revel in, school, security, self-admiration, self-assurance, self-confidence, self-consequence, self-esteem, self-importance, self-love, self-reliance, self-respect, settled belief, shoal, side, skulk, sloth, smugness, snobbery, snobbishness, solemnity, state, stiff-necked pride, subjective certainty, superbia, sureness, surety, take pride in, toploftiness, treasure, trip, troop, trophy, trouvaille, trust, uppishness, uppityness, vainglory, vanity, vaunt, windfall, winner, wrath, Olympian detachment, Olympian loftiness, acedia, anger, army, arrogance, arrogantness, assumption of superiority, assurance, assuredness, avarice, avaritia, be proud of, belief, best, bighead,

Etymology
From, from pryde:, pryte: (compare Old Norse prýði:), derivative of Old English prud:.

Synonyms

 * prid, sandpiper
 * See also Thesaurus:pride

Derived terms

 * prideful

Related terms

 * proud

Noun

 * Dutch: trots, fierheid, eergevoel
 * Finnish:
 * Norwegian:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian: гордыня, спесь,, , чванство


 * Scottish Gaelic: uaill
 * Slovene:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Arabic: فخر
 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 驕傲, 骄傲, 自尊
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, eigendunk, zelfvoldaanheid
 * Faroese: erni
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Hindi: गर्व
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:


 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: شانازی
 * Macedonian: гордост (gordost)
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: uaill
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Dutch: trots, fierheid, hoogmoed, eigenwaan
 * Finnish:, , kopeus
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Japanese:
 * Norwegian:


 * Russian: гордыня, спесь,, , чванство
 * Scottish Gaelic: uaill
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Armenian:
 * Dutch: (bron van) trots
 * Finnish: ylpeydenaihe
 * French: ,
 * German:


 * Japanese: 自慢 (じまん)
 * Norwegian:
 * Russian:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * German: kleines Neunauge


 * Swahili:


 * Finnish: ylvästely
 * Russian:


 * Scottish Gaelic: uaill
 * Swahili:


 * Dutch: bloei(tijd), fleur, hoogtepunt, piek, (volle) glorie
 * Finnish:


 * Russian: расцвет, разгар
 * Swahili:


 * Dutch: zelfbewustzijn, trots
 * Norwegian: selvbevissthet


 * Swahili:


 * Finnish:


 * Swahili:


 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:


 * German:
 * Russian: прайд
 * Swahili:

Anagrams

 * pried
 * riped