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单词 pridefulness
释义

prideful

adjective

pride·​ful ˈprīd-fəl How to pronounce prideful (audio)
: full of pride: such as
a
: disdainful, haughty
b
: exultant, elated
pridefully
ˈprīd-fə-lē How to pronounce prideful (audio)
adverb
pridefulness noun

Synonyms

  • disdainful
  • haughty
  • highfalutin
  • hifalutin
  • lofty
  • lordly
  • proud
  • superior
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Example Sentences

prideful intellectuals long considered rock music unworthy of serious study at the wedding the prideful snobs ignored their poor relations
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Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

pridefulness

noun

1
as in pride
a reasonable or justifiable sense of one's worth or importance beaming with understandable pridefulness, the physically challenged graduate accepted his college diploma

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance
  • pride
  • ego
  • confidence
  • dignity
  • self-regard
  • self-respect
  • self-esteem
  • self-pride
  • assurance
  • self-assurance
  • aplomb
  • self-assuredness
  • prestige
  • self-confidence
  • self-worth
  • honor
  • self-trust
  • face

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • humiliation
  • humility
  • shame
  • dishonor
  • opprobrium
  • ignominy
  • infamy
  • disgrace
  • disesteem
  • odium
  • obloquy
  • disrepute
  • modesty
  • discredit
  • humbleness
  • meekness
  • timidity
  • diffidence
  • demureness
  • shyness
  • down-to-earthness
  • timidness
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2
as in vanity
an often unjustified feeling of being pleased with oneself or with one's situation or achievements an inordinate amount of pridefulness for someone who has much to be modest about

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • vanity
  • ego
  • pride
  • arrogance
  • conceitedness
  • smugness
  • vainness
  • vainglory
  • egotism
  • complacency
  • pompousness
  • complacence
  • pomposity
  • superiority
  • self-admiration
  • self-glory
  • self-opinion
  • confidence
  • conceit
  • self-satisfaction
  • self-conceit
  • amour propre
  • vaingloriousness
  • self-importance
  • self-congratulation
  • swellheadedness
  • assurance
  • selfishness
  • self-love
  • superciliousness
  • haughtiness
  • bighead
  • disdainfulness
  • imperiousness
  • swelled head
  • snobbishness
  • hubris
  • self-assumption
  • lordliness
  • self-righteousness
  • overconfidence
  • self-esteem
  • egoism
  • self-assurance
  • self-confidence
  • presumption
  • self-pride
  • pretension
  • self-centeredness
  • self-assertion
  • pretentiousness
  • pretense
  • pretence
  • self-respect

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • humility
  • humbleness
  • modesty
  • diffidence
  • unselfishness
  • altruism
  • bashfulness
  • timidity
  • self-disgust
  • demureness
  • self-loathing
  • self-doubt
  • timidness
  • shyness
  • passiveness
  • passivity
  • self-hate
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