English words for 'Conducive to self-esteem'
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noun
- depriving one of self-esteem
- an instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect
- strong feelings of embarrassment
- state of disgrace or loss of self-respect
- The state of being humiliated, humbled or reduced to lowliness or submission.
- The act of humiliating or humbling someone; abasement of pride; mortification.
noun
- A person's self-esteem and opinion of themselves.
- The self, especially with a sense of self-importance.
- (psychology, Freudian) The most central part of the mind, which mediates with one's surroundings.
- (anthropology, genealogy) The individual from whose point of view a family tree or pedigree chart is drawn, or the reference point from whom kinship terminology is relative. (Used without the definite article the.)
- (psychoanalysis) the conscious mind
- your consciousness of your own identity
- an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others
noun
- a feeling of self-respect and personal worth
- A sense of one's own worth; reasonable self-esteem and satisfaction (in oneself, in one's work, one's family, etc).
- unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- satisfaction with your (or another's) achievements
- the trait of being spurred on by a dislike of falling below your standards
- a group of lions
- Something or someone of which one is proud; that which is the source of self-congratulation and self-esteem (whether reasonable or arrogant), for example
- Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment that reflects such an attitude (of haughtiness); arrogance.
- Highest level or rank; (figurative) elevation reached; loftiness or glory.
- Show; ostentation; glory.
- Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness.
- (zoology) The small European lamprey species Petromyzon branchialis.
- An unreasonable overestimation of one's own superiority in terms of talents, or looks, wealth, importance, etc., which comes across as being haughty, lofty, and often showing contempt of others; exaggerated self-worth.
- Alternative letter-case form of Pride (“festival for LGBT people”).
- (zoology, collective) A company of lions or other large felines.
verb
adj
- feeling self-importance
- exhibiting self-importance
- in an advanced stage of pregnancy
- given or giving freely
- generous and understanding and tolerant
- prodigious
- above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
- serious or severe
- (of animals) fully developed
- significant
- loud and firm
- marked by intense physical force
- conspicuous in position or importance
- Popular.
- Of great size, large.
- (of a city) Populous.
- (informal) Important or significant.
- Having large muscles, especially visible ones such as the chest and arm muscles.
- (informal) Mature, conscientious, principled; generous. [with of ‘someone’]
- (informal) Used as an intensifier, especially of negative-valence nouns
- (of an industry or other field, or institution(s) therein; often capitalized; sometimes humorous) Operating on a large scale, especially if therefore having undue or sinister influence.
- Specifically, big-breasted.
- (informal, slang, rare, of someone's age) Old, mature. Used to imply that someone is too old for something, or acting immaturely.
- Having a large penis.
- (informal) Enthusiastic (about). [with on ‘someone/something’]
- (informal) Fat.
- (sometimes figurative) Large with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce.
- (informal) Adult; (of a child) older.
adv
noun
- (university slang) An initiated member of a sorority or fraternity who acts as a mentor to a new member (the little).
- (ageplay) The participant in age roleplay who acts out the older role.
- An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name.
- Someone or something that is large in stature.
- (in the plural) The big leagues, big time.
adj
- feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride
- having or displaying great dignity or nobility
- Standing out or raised; swollen.
- That makes one feel proud (of something one did)
- (Of things) standing upwards as in the manner of a proud person; stately or majestic.
- Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified.
- (chiefly biblical) Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious, prideful.
- Possessed of a due sense of what one deserves or is worth.
- Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride.
adj
noun
verb
adj
- characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance
- Having an excessively favourable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.; egotistical and vain.
- (rhetoric, literature) Having an ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.
verb
adj
- characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance
- characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance
- Tending to talk excessively about oneself.
- Believing oneself to be better and more important than others due to one's position, popularity, wealth, appearance, etc.
- (nonstandard, by confusion of the similar words) Egoistical (advocating egoism).
adj
- characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance
- Overly proud of oneself, especially concerning appearance; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason.
- unproductive of success
- Showy; ostentatious.
- Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying.
- Effecting no purpose; pointless, futile.
noun
- (uncountable) Overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris.
- the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride
- The faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension.
- Design; pattern.
- Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.
- (countable) A novel or fanciful idea; a whim.
- (countable, rhetoric, literature) An ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.
- a witty or ingenious turn of phrase
- an elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar things
- an artistic device or effect
- feelings of excessive pride
adj
- lacking self-confidence
- wary and distrustful; disposed to avoid persons or things
- short
- Cautious; wary; suspicious.
- (UK, US, politics, of a voter) Less likely to reveal whom they will vote for than average, chiefly in the context of the collective effect this has on polling accuracy.
- Reserved; disinclined to familiar approach.
- Easily frightened; timid.
- (informal) Short, insufficient or less than.
noun
- a quick throw
- (Scotland) In shinty, the act of tossing the ball above the head and hitting it with the shaft of the caman to bring it back into play after it has been hit out of the field.
- In the Eton College wall game, a point scored by lifting the ball against the wall in the calx.
- (Scotland, soccer) A throw-in from the sidelines, using two hands above the head.
- A sudden start aside, as by a horse.
- A place for throwing.
- An act of throwing.
verb
- start suddenly, as from fright
- throw quickly
- (Scotland, transitive, intransitive) To throw a ball with two hands above the head, especially when it has crossed the side lines in a football (soccer) match.
- (transitive) To throw sideways with a jerk; to fling.
- (intransitive) To avoid due to caution, embarrassment or timidness.
- (intransitive) To jump back in fear.
- (Scotland) To hit the ball back into play from the sidelines in a shinty match.
adj
noun
verb
noun
- the state of being held in low esteem
- (countable or uncountable) Discrediting or disbelieving.
- (countable) A person or thing that causes harm to a reputation, as of a person, family, or institution.
- (uncountable) A degree of dishonour or disesteem; ill repute; reproach.
- (uncountable) The state of being discredited or disbelieved.
verb
adj
noun
- (architecture) a vaulted structure
- a light leap by a horse in which both hind legs leave the ground before the forelegs come down
- The sport of gymnastics and dance routines performed on horseback, and on the longe line.
- A vaulted structure; such structures treated as a group.
- The practice of constructing vaults, or a particular method of such construction.
verb
noun
- depriving one of self-esteem
- an instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect
- strong feelings of embarrassment
- state of disgrace or loss of self-respect
- The state of being humiliated, humbled or reduced to lowliness or submission.
- The act of humiliating or humbling someone; abasement of pride; mortification.
noun
- A person's self-esteem and opinion of themselves.
- The self, especially with a sense of self-importance.
- (psychology, Freudian) The most central part of the mind, which mediates with one's surroundings.
- (anthropology, genealogy) The individual from whose point of view a family tree or pedigree chart is drawn, or the reference point from whom kinship terminology is relative. (Used without the definite article the.)
- (psychoanalysis) the conscious mind
- your consciousness of your own identity
- an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others
noun
- a feeling of self-respect and personal worth
- A sense of one's own worth; reasonable self-esteem and satisfaction (in oneself, in one's work, one's family, etc).
- unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- satisfaction with your (or another's) achievements
- the trait of being spurred on by a dislike of falling below your standards
- a group of lions
- Something or someone of which one is proud; that which is the source of self-congratulation and self-esteem (whether reasonable or arrogant), for example
- Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment that reflects such an attitude (of haughtiness); arrogance.
- Highest level or rank; (figurative) elevation reached; loftiness or glory.
- Show; ostentation; glory.
- Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness.
- (zoology) The small European lamprey species Petromyzon branchialis.
- An unreasonable overestimation of one's own superiority in terms of talents, or looks, wealth, importance, etc., which comes across as being haughty, lofty, and often showing contempt of others; exaggerated self-worth.
- Alternative letter-case form of Pride (“festival for LGBT people”).
- (zoology, collective) A company of lions or other large felines.
verb
noun
- (uncountable) Overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris.
- the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride
- The faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension.
- Design; pattern.
- Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.
- (countable) A novel or fanciful idea; a whim.
- (countable, rhetoric, literature) An ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.
- a witty or ingenious turn of phrase
- an elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar things
- an artistic device or effect
- feelings of excessive pride
noun
- the state of being held in low esteem
- (countable or uncountable) Discrediting or disbelieving.
- (countable) A person or thing that causes harm to a reputation, as of a person, family, or institution.
- (uncountable) A degree of dishonour or disesteem; ill repute; reproach.
- (uncountable) The state of being discredited or disbelieved.
verb
adj
- feeling self-importance
- exhibiting self-importance
- in an advanced stage of pregnancy
- given or giving freely
- generous and understanding and tolerant
- prodigious
- above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
- serious or severe
- (of animals) fully developed
- significant
- loud and firm
- marked by intense physical force
- conspicuous in position or importance
- Popular.
- Of great size, large.
- (of a city) Populous.
- (informal) Important or significant.
- Having large muscles, especially visible ones such as the chest and arm muscles.
- (informal) Mature, conscientious, principled; generous. [with of ‘someone’]
- (informal) Used as an intensifier, especially of negative-valence nouns
- (of an industry or other field, or institution(s) therein; often capitalized; sometimes humorous) Operating on a large scale, especially if therefore having undue or sinister influence.
- Specifically, big-breasted.
- (informal, slang, rare, of someone's age) Old, mature. Used to imply that someone is too old for something, or acting immaturely.
- Having a large penis.
- (informal) Enthusiastic (about). [with on ‘someone/something’]
- (informal) Fat.
- (sometimes figurative) Large with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce.
- (informal) Adult; (of a child) older.
adv
noun
- (university slang) An initiated member of a sorority or fraternity who acts as a mentor to a new member (the little).
- (ageplay) The participant in age roleplay who acts out the older role.
- An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name.
- Someone or something that is large in stature.
- (in the plural) The big leagues, big time.
adj
- feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride
- having or displaying great dignity or nobility
- Standing out or raised; swollen.
- That makes one feel proud (of something one did)
- (Of things) standing upwards as in the manner of a proud person; stately or majestic.
- Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified.
- (chiefly biblical) Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious, prideful.
- Possessed of a due sense of what one deserves or is worth.
- Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride.
adj
noun
verb
adj
- characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance
- Having an excessively favourable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.; egotistical and vain.
- (rhetoric, literature) Having an ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.
verb
adj
- characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance
- characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance
- Tending to talk excessively about oneself.
- Believing oneself to be better and more important than others due to one's position, popularity, wealth, appearance, etc.
- (nonstandard, by confusion of the similar words) Egoistical (advocating egoism).
adj
- characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance
- Overly proud of oneself, especially concerning appearance; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason.
- unproductive of success
- Showy; ostentatious.
- Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying.
- Effecting no purpose; pointless, futile.
adj
- lacking self-confidence
- wary and distrustful; disposed to avoid persons or things
- short
- Cautious; wary; suspicious.
- (UK, US, politics, of a voter) Less likely to reveal whom they will vote for than average, chiefly in the context of the collective effect this has on polling accuracy.
- Reserved; disinclined to familiar approach.
- Easily frightened; timid.
- (informal) Short, insufficient or less than.
noun
- a quick throw
- (Scotland) In shinty, the act of tossing the ball above the head and hitting it with the shaft of the caman to bring it back into play after it has been hit out of the field.
- In the Eton College wall game, a point scored by lifting the ball against the wall in the calx.
- (Scotland, soccer) A throw-in from the sidelines, using two hands above the head.
- A sudden start aside, as by a horse.
- A place for throwing.
- An act of throwing.
verb
- start suddenly, as from fright
- throw quickly
- (Scotland, transitive, intransitive) To throw a ball with two hands above the head, especially when it has crossed the side lines in a football (soccer) match.
- (transitive) To throw sideways with a jerk; to fling.
- (intransitive) To avoid due to caution, embarrassment or timidness.
- (intransitive) To jump back in fear.
- (Scotland) To hit the ball back into play from the sidelines in a shinty match.
adj
noun
verb
adj
noun
- (architecture) a vaulted structure
- a light leap by a horse in which both hind legs leave the ground before the forelegs come down
- The sport of gymnastics and dance routines performed on horseback, and on the longe line.
- A vaulted structure; such structures treated as a group.
- The practice of constructing vaults, or a particular method of such construction.