Proud

Quick meaning: Proud is an adjective meaning Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified.

Meaning

Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified.

More Meanings

1. Possessed of a due sense of what one deserves or is worth.
2. Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride.
3. (Of things) standing upwards as in the manner of a proud person; stately or majestic.
4. Standing out or raised; swollen.
5. (chiefly biblical) Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious, prideful.
6. (obsolete) Brave, valiant; gallant.
7. (obsolete) Excited by sexual desire; specifically of a female animal: in heat.

Example Sentences

I was too proud to apologise.

We're proud of having won / to have won.

Death be not proud; though ſome have called thee / Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not ſoe, [...]

Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord: though hand ioyne in hand, he ſhall not be vnpuniſhed.

Word Forms

• prouder
• proudest
• prowd

Synonyms for proud

Depending on context, synonyms include self-confident, arrogant, vain, conceited, gratifying, glorious.

Antonyms for proud

Common opposites include ashamed, humiliated, embarrassed, humble, meek, modest.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include purse-proud, self-aggrandizing, haughty, gratifying, gallant, conceited.

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