单词 | prideful |
释义 | prideful (once / 25418 pages) adj Someone who's prideful is arrogant and disdainful. Prideful people don't usually have many friends, since they think they're superior to everyone else. Although the adjective prideful is occasionally used simply to mean "proud," or pleased and happy because of some achievement or quality, it usually means something closer to "haughty." If you know someone who's beyond proud, believing they're smarter, more beautiful, or just generally better than most other people, you can describe that person as prideful. WORD FAMILYprideful: pridefully, pridefulness+/pride: prided, prideful, prides, priding, self-pride USAGE EXAMPLESAll great players are very prideful and Felix is no different. Seattle Times(Dec 07, 2016) He added, pridefully, that Cuba’s revolution had little to learn from the Yankees, and no need of their charity, either. The New Yorker(Nov 26, 2016) “There’s something about the Cougar aspect that everyone’s very tight-knit, everyone’s very prideful of being a Cougar,” Siefkes said. Washington Post(Nov 24, 2016) 1adj having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy walked with a prideful swagger Syn disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering proud feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride 2adj joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success Syn exultant, exulting, jubilant, rejoicing, triumphal, triumphant elated exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits |
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