prideful
/'praidful/
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Feeling or showing excessive pride; haughty: Characterized by an inflated sense of one's own importance, often accompanied by a disdainful attitude toward others perceived as inferior.
- Feeling or showing great pride and joy, especially due to success; exultant: Characterized by a deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one's own achievements, qualities, or possessions, often in a celebratory or triumphant context.
Usage
- The word "prideful" is used to describe a person's character, attitude, or behavior. It can carry a negative connotation of arrogance or a positive connotation of justified, joyful pride.
- It is typically used attributively (before a noun) or predicatively (after a linking verb like 'be', 'seem', 'become').
Examples
- Negative Connotation (Arrogant):
- His prideful attitude made it difficult for him to accept constructive criticism.
- She gave a prideful smirk, looking down on her competitors.
- Positive/Neutral Connotation (Exultant):
- The team was prideful after their hard-won championship victory.
- A prideful smile spread across her face as she accepted the award.
Advanced Usage
- Literary/Descriptive Use: Often used in literature and descriptive writing to convey a character's personality or a specific mood.
- The king surveyed his lands with a prideful gaze.
- Comparative and Superlative Forms: "More prideful" and "most prideful" are commonly used, though "prouder" and "proudest" are more frequent for the positive sense.
- He became even more prideful after his promotion.
Variants and Related Words
- Pridefully (adverb): In a prideful manner.
- He pridefully refused any help.
- Pridefulness (noun): The quality or state of being prideful.
- His pridefulness was his ultimate downfall.
Synonyms
- Arrogant: Having an exaggerated sense of one's own importance or abilities.
- Haughty: Arrogantly superior and disdainful.
- Supercilious: Behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others.
- Disdainful: Showing contempt or lack of respect.
- Exultant: Triumphantly happy.
- Jubilant: Feeling or expressing great happiness and triumph.
Antonyms
- Humble: Having or showing a modest or low estimate of one's own importance.
- Modest: Unassuming in the estimation of one's abilities or achievements.
- Meek: Quiet, gentle, and easily imposed on; submissive.
Idioms and Phrases
- "Prideful heart": A character or disposition marked by excessive pride.
- His prideful heart prevented him from apologizing.
- "Prideful spirit": Similar to "prideful heart," indicating an inner attitude of arrogance.
- She possessed a prideful spirit that both attracted and repelled people.
Adjective
- joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success
- rejoicing crowds filled the streets on VJ Day
- a triumphal success
- a triumphant shout
- 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