prideful

[ prahyd-fuhl ]

/ ˈpraɪd fəl /

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adjective

thinking too highly of oneself; conceited, arrogant, or overconfident:I was too bitter and prideful and didn't think I needed the Addiction Recovery meetings, so I didn’t go.

full of a legitimate sense of self-worth or satisfaction because of one’s own or another’s accomplishment:It is a prideful moment for us as we congratulate our friend, one of ten winners of the annual Worldwide Robotics contest.

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Origin of prideful

pride + -ful

OTHER WORDS FROM prideful

pride·ful·ly, adverbpride·ful·ness, nounun·pride·ful, adjectiveun·pride·ful·ly, adverb

Words nearby prideful

pricky, pricy, pride, pride and joy, Pride and Prejudice, prideful, Pride goeth before a fall, pride-of-California, pride of China, pride of place, pride of the morning

How to use prideful in a sentence

That message of inclusion and pride was both shown and told at the Democratic convention the week before.
LGBTQ: The letters Republicans didn’t utter|Hans Johnson|September 11, 2020|Washington Blade
Parents have pride in their neighborhoods even if the teachers there do not live, shop or educate their own children in the neighborhood in which they work.
Our Public Schools Have a Customer Service Problem|Thomas Courtney|September 10, 2020|Voice of San Diego
A third says “Joe,” incorporating colors from the pride flag.
Official Biden-Harris campaign yard signs available for download in Nintendo’s ‘Animal Crossing’|rhhackettfortune|September 1, 2020|Fortune
Nevertheless, with great self-confidence and pride, I answered him.
‘The Dream Architects’: Inside the making of gaming’s biggest franchises|Rachel King|September 1, 2020|Fortune

I actually take pride in being attacked by both and having fans on both the left and the right, it means a lot to me.
Full Transcript: Tomi Lahren on ‘The Carlos Watson Show’|Daniel Malloy|August 31, 2020|Ozy
His harshest words of criticism were aimed at those who were prideful.
June, The Month When Pride Isn’t a Sin|Gene Robinson|June 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
An early Zionist leader, prideful, pugnacious, Ussishkin headed the Jewish National Fund for nearly 20 years.
Yeshayahu Leibowitz Is Not The Name Of A Street|Gershom Gorenberg|April 18, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Instead, it is prideful ignorance—an eagerness to go off the fiscal cliff to show the world that gravity does not exist.
GOP’s Debt Kamikazes|John Avlon|July 15, 2011|DAILY BEAST
One of the central reasons entrepreneurial capitalism works well is that humans are a prideful species.
Let Them Say F--k|Reihan Salam|August 1, 2010|DAILY BEAST
But they were safe, and in a prideful, self-conscious, young-mother way she began to wash the five.
Roof and Meadow|Dallas Lore Sharp
She had spoken with a defensive tone, one hardly certain, but as she finished a prideful note crept into her voice.
A Pagan of the Hills|Charles Neville Buck
"You can revile me as much as you like now, Nan," he said, with prideful humility.
The Quickening|Francis Lynde
To himself, as already stated, the latter took prideful credit for results achieved and results promised.
Sundry Accounts|Irvin S. Cobb
I am not speaking sarcastically, my point is not a chauvinistic one, not even hemispherically prideful.
Greener Than You Think|Ward Moore