English words for 'Pride, high self-esteem.'
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noun
verb
- To walk with a swaying motion.
- To behave (especially to walk or carry oneself) in a pompous, superior manner.
- To boast or brag noisily; to bluster; to bully.
- act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner
- discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate
- to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others
adj
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
- feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride
- Generating a sense of pride; being a cause 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.
verb
- To take pride in.
- To wound the pride of (someone); to excite to anger; to irritate, to offend.
- (reflexive) To pride (oneself) on something.
- To excite to action, especially by causing jealousy, resentment, etc.; also, to stimulate an emotion or feeling, especially curiosity or interest.
- To excite (someone) to action, especially by causing jealousy, resentment, etc.; also, to stimulate (an emotion or feeling, especially curiosity or interest).
- cause to feel resentment or indignation
noun
- (sewing) Alternative form of piqué (“a kind of corded or ribbed fabric made from cotton, rayon, or silk”).
- (uncountable) Irritation or resentment awakened by a social injury or slight; offence, especially taken in an emotional sense with little consideration or thought; (countable) especially in fit of pique: a transient feeling of wounded pride.
- (uncountable) Enmity, ill feeling; (countable) a feeling of animosity or a dispute.
- (card games) In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one.
- midgie, sand fly, punkie, punky (US)
- a sudden outburst of anger
- tightly woven fabric with raised cords
noun
- (uncountable) Overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris.
- feelings of excessive pride
- 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
noun
- 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
- a feeling of self-respect and personal worth
- 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.
- A sense of one's own worth; reasonable self-esteem and satisfaction (in oneself, in one's work, one's family, etc).
- 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
- unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins)
verb
noun
- feelings of excessive pride
- Excessive pride in or admiration of one's own abilities, appearance, achievements, or possessions.
- the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride
- the quality of being valueless or futile
- low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup
- A washbasin installed into a permanently fixed storage unit, used as an item of bathroom furniture.
- A dressing table used to apply makeup, preen, and coif hair, in which the table is normally quite low and similar to a desk.
- That which is vain, futile, or worthless; that which is of no value, use or profit.
adj
noun
verb
noun
- An exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism.
- an exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism; an absence of depression
- a feeling of joy and pride
- A feeling of joy and pride.
- (geometry) A collineation that fixes all points on a line (called its axis) and all lines though a point on the axis (called its center).
noun
- A person's self-esteem and opinion of themselves.
- The self, especially with a sense of self-importance.
- an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others
- (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
noun
- an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others
- an exaggerated opinion of your own importance
- (nonstandard, by confusion of the similar words) Egoism (belief that behavior should be directed towards one's self-interest).
- A tendency to talk excessively about oneself.
- A belief that one is superior to or more important than others.
- (countable) The result or product of being egoistic.
noun
verb
- (squash) To play a boast shot.
- (masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
- (transitive) To possess (a special and desirable quality).
- (intransitive) To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.
- (transitive) (used with "about" or "of") To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
- (sculpting) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.
- wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner
- show off
verb
noun
- Worship or praise.
- That quality in a person or thing which secures general praise or honour.
- (meteorology, optics) An optical phenomenon, consisting of concentric rings and somewhat similar to a rainbow, caused by sunlight or moonlight interacting with the water droplets that compose mist or clouds, centered on the antisolar or antilunar point.
- Something glorious.
- (theology) The manifestation of the presence of God as perceived by humans in Abrahamic religions.
- Victory; success.
- An emanation of light supposed to shine from beings that are specially holy. It is represented in art by rays of gold, or the like, proceeding from the head or body, or by a disk, or a mere line.
- Honour, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; high reputation; renown.
- Great beauty and splendor.
- an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint
- a state of high honor
- brilliant radiant beauty
adj
- exhibiting self-importance
- feeling 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.
verb
- To inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, etc.; often with up.
- To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate.
- To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.
- To blow as an expression of scorn.
- (intransitive) To emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs.
- To praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly.
- To drive with a puff, or with puffs.
- To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously.
- To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance.
- (intransitive) To pant.
- make proud or conceited
- speak in a blustering or scornful manner
- breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
- suck in or take (air)
- to swell or cause to enlarge
- smoke and exhale strongly
- praise extravagantly
- blow hard and loudly
noun
- (uncountable) The ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself.
- A puffball.
- (uncountable, slang) The drug cannabis.
- (countable) A flamboyant or alluring statement of praise.
- (countable) A small quantity of gas or smoke in the air.
- (countable) A sudden but small gust of wind, smoke, etc.
- (genetics) A region of a chromosome exhibiting a local increase in diameter.
- A portion of fabric gathered up so as to be left full in the middle.
- (derogatory, chiefly Northern England, slang) Synonym of poof: a gay man; especially one who is effeminate.
- (informal, countable) An act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe.
- A powder puff.
- (countable) A sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth.
- (countable) A light cake filled with cream, cream cheese, etc.
- a short light gust of air
- exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes)
- a soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for applying powder to the skin
- a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)
- bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together
- thick cushion used as a seat
- forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth
- a light inflated pastry or puff shell
adj
adj
noun
verb
noun
verb
- To walk with a swaying motion.
- To behave (especially to walk or carry oneself) in a pompous, superior manner.
- To boast or brag noisily; to bluster; to bully.
- act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner
- discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate
- to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others
adj
noun
- (uncountable) Overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris.
- feelings of excessive pride
- 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
noun
- 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
- a feeling of self-respect and personal worth
- 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.
- A sense of one's own worth; reasonable self-esteem and satisfaction (in oneself, in one's work, one's family, etc).
- 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
- unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins)
verb
noun
- feelings of excessive pride
- Excessive pride in or admiration of one's own abilities, appearance, achievements, or possessions.
- the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride
- the quality of being valueless or futile
- low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup
- A washbasin installed into a permanently fixed storage unit, used as an item of bathroom furniture.
- A dressing table used to apply makeup, preen, and coif hair, in which the table is normally quite low and similar to a desk.
- That which is vain, futile, or worthless; that which is of no value, use or profit.
noun
- An exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism.
- an exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism; an absence of depression
- a feeling of joy and pride
- A feeling of joy and pride.
- (geometry) A collineation that fixes all points on a line (called its axis) and all lines though a point on the axis (called its center).
noun
- A person's self-esteem and opinion of themselves.
- The self, especially with a sense of self-importance.
- an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others
- (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
noun
- an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others
- an exaggerated opinion of your own importance
- (nonstandard, by confusion of the similar words) Egoism (belief that behavior should be directed towards one's self-interest).
- A tendency to talk excessively about oneself.
- A belief that one is superior to or more important than others.
- (countable) The result or product of being egoistic.
noun
verb
- (squash) To play a boast shot.
- (masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
- (transitive) To possess (a special and desirable quality).
- (intransitive) To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.
- (transitive) (used with "about" or "of") To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
- (sculpting) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.
- wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner
- show off
verb
- To take pride in.
- To wound the pride of (someone); to excite to anger; to irritate, to offend.
- (reflexive) To pride (oneself) on something.
- To excite to action, especially by causing jealousy, resentment, etc.; also, to stimulate an emotion or feeling, especially curiosity or interest.
- To excite (someone) to action, especially by causing jealousy, resentment, etc.; also, to stimulate (an emotion or feeling, especially curiosity or interest).
- cause to feel resentment or indignation
noun
- (sewing) Alternative form of piqué (“a kind of corded or ribbed fabric made from cotton, rayon, or silk”).
- (uncountable) Irritation or resentment awakened by a social injury or slight; offence, especially taken in an emotional sense with little consideration or thought; (countable) especially in fit of pique: a transient feeling of wounded pride.
- (uncountable) Enmity, ill feeling; (countable) a feeling of animosity or a dispute.
- (card games) In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one.
- midgie, sand fly, punkie, punky (US)
- a sudden outburst of anger
- tightly woven fabric with raised cords
verb
noun
- Worship or praise.
- That quality in a person or thing which secures general praise or honour.
- (meteorology, optics) An optical phenomenon, consisting of concentric rings and somewhat similar to a rainbow, caused by sunlight or moonlight interacting with the water droplets that compose mist or clouds, centered on the antisolar or antilunar point.
- Something glorious.
- (theology) The manifestation of the presence of God as perceived by humans in Abrahamic religions.
- Victory; success.
- An emanation of light supposed to shine from beings that are specially holy. It is represented in art by rays of gold, or the like, proceeding from the head or body, or by a disk, or a mere line.
- Honour, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; high reputation; renown.
- Great beauty and splendor.
- an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint
- a state of high honor
- brilliant radiant beauty
verb
- To inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, etc.; often with up.
- To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate.
- To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.
- To blow as an expression of scorn.
- (intransitive) To emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs.
- To praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly.
- To drive with a puff, or with puffs.
- To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously.
- To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance.
- (intransitive) To pant.
- make proud or conceited
- speak in a blustering or scornful manner
- breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
- suck in or take (air)
- to swell or cause to enlarge
- smoke and exhale strongly
- praise extravagantly
- blow hard and loudly
noun
- (uncountable) The ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself.
- A puffball.
- (uncountable, slang) The drug cannabis.
- (countable) A flamboyant or alluring statement of praise.
- (countable) A small quantity of gas or smoke in the air.
- (countable) A sudden but small gust of wind, smoke, etc.
- (genetics) A region of a chromosome exhibiting a local increase in diameter.
- A portion of fabric gathered up so as to be left full in the middle.
- (derogatory, chiefly Northern England, slang) Synonym of poof: a gay man; especially one who is effeminate.
- (informal, countable) An act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe.
- A powder puff.
- (countable) A sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth.
- (countable) A light cake filled with cream, cream cheese, etc.
- a short light gust of air
- exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes)
- a soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for applying powder to the skin
- a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)
- bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together
- thick cushion used as a seat
- forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth
- a light inflated pastry or puff shell
adj
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
- feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride
- Generating a sense of pride; being a cause 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.
adj
noun
verb
adj
- exhibiting self-importance
- feeling 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.