Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Arrogant; disdainful.
  • adjective Highly pleased; elated.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Full of pride; insolent; scornful.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Full of pride; haughty.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective North America Full of pride; haughty, arrogant.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy
  • adjective joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success

Etymologies

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From pride +‎ -ful.

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Examples

  • But, then again, I've been called a prideful ass on a number of occasions, so maybe I'm lucky enough to be impervious to women's debasing temptations.

    News-Letter 2010

  • I hope your pride day was 'prideful' ... and I remain, even with this little disagreement, your biggest fan.

    Dojo the Ninja Squirrel and "Welcome to Bigot Country!" Elizabeth McClung 2008

  • It is interesting to note that the priest advisor to the members of this group has suggested that a desire to attend the Tridentine Latin Mass is "prideful" and the Tridentine Mass itself is "from the devil."

    Kneel: No butts about it Luxury Home 2008

  • It is interesting to note that the priest advisor to the members of this group has suggested that a desire to attend the Tridentine Latin Mass is "prideful" and the Tridentine Mass itself is "from the devil."

    Archive 2008-05-01 Luxury Home 2008

  • Historians today bemoan the ascendancy of a kind of prideful apartheid in America, saying that the clinging to ethnicity, in background and custom, has undermined the concept of unity.

    A Quilt Of A Country 2007

  • She uttered the fact with a kind of prideful dignity.

    The Girls at Mount Morris Amanda Minnie Douglas 1873

  • Those who easily dismiss it because they don't approve of the culture, or the religion, or the color of the skin, or the flavor of the scripture, or the past of the religion Seems kind of prideful to say Christians are the * most* persecuted around the world.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2008

  • Those who easily dismiss it because they don't approve of the culture, or the religion, or the color of the skin, or the flavor of the scripture, or the past of the religion Seems kind of prideful to say Christians are the * most* persecuted around the world.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2008

  • Those who easily dismiss it because they don't approve of the culture, or the religion, or the color of the skin, or the flavor of the scripture, or the past of the religion Seems kind of prideful to say Christians are the * most* persecuted around the world.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2008

  • This "prideful" angle highlights how the presidential race, and then if he wins, his term itself can go astray because of personal demons, and the way it goes astry depends on the nature of the personal demons.

    THE IRATE NATION 2008

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