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English Dictionary: prideful by the DICT Development Group
2 results for prideful
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
prideful
adj
  1. 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
    Synonym(s): disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering
  2. joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success; "rejoicing crowds filled the streets on VJ Day"; "a triumphal success"; "a triumphant shout"
    Synonym(s): exultant, exulting, jubilant, prideful, rejoicing, triumphal, triumphant
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Prideful \Pride"ful\, a.
      Full of pride; haughty. --Tennyson. -- {Pride"ful*ly}, adv.
      -- {Pride"ful-ness}, n.
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