| 单词 | pride |
| 释义 | pride (once / 82 pages) 1nv 2n The noun pride describes a feeling of happiness that comes from achieving something. When you do a good job or finish a difficult task, you feel pride. Pride can also have a negative meaning and refer to exceedingly high self-regard. If you know someone with the negative kind of pride, you might notice that his pride makes it hard for people to like him. Pride can also refer to the standards you have for yourself — your dignity. For example, you might have too much pride to ask for help when you need it. Pride also acts as a verb meaning "be proud of." You might pride yourself on being punctual, or pride yourself on always having a daring, trendsetting haircut. WORD FAMILYpride: prided, prideful, prides, priding, self-pride+/prideful: pridefully, pridefulness USAGE EXAMPLESWhen we win, there is shared pride and a communal awareness that we are part of a unique fellowship. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) It’s no secret that our culture today prides itself on the amount of work we put into our jobs. Salon(Jan 01, 2017) Mr. Déon prided himself, he once said, on preserving “a certain anarchism of the right and a pessimism that strives for lucidity.” New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1n a feeling of self-respect and personal worth Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper pridefulness humbleness, humility a humble feeling dignity, self-regard, self-respect, self-worth the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect self-esteem, self-pridea feeling of pride in yourself ego, egotism, self-importancean inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others amour propre, conceit, self-love, vanityfeelings of excessive pride feeling the experiencing of affective and emotional states 2n unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins) Syn|Hypo|Hyper superbia arrogance, haughtiness, hauteur, high-handedness, lordliness overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors condescension, disdainfulness, superciliousnessthe trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior contemptuousnessthe manifestation of scorn and contempt hubrisoverbearing pride or presumption domineeringness, imperiousness, overbearingnessthe trait of being imperious and overbearing superioritydisplaying a sense of being better than others snobbery, snobbishness, snobbismthe trait of condescending to those of lower social status deadly sin, mortal sin an unpardonable sin entailing a total loss of grace 3n the trait of being spurred on by a dislike of falling below your standards Hyper trait a distinguishing feature of your personal nature 4n satisfaction with your (or another's) achievements he takes pride in his son's success Hypo|Hyper civic pride, civic spirit pride in your city satisfaction the contentment one feels when one has fulfilled a desire, need, or expectation 5v be proud of 2He prides himself on making it into law school Syn|Hyper congratulate, plume experience, feel undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind n a group of lions Hyper animal group a group of animals |
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