Meaning of PRIDEFUL
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- [adj] joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success; "rejoicing crowds filled the streets on VJ Day"; "a triumphal success"; "a triumphant shout"
- [adj] having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "shaggy supercilious camels"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer
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| | Synonyms: | | disdainful, elated, exultant, exulting, haughty, jubilant, lordly, proud, rejoicing, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering, triumphal, triumphant |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Pride"ful\, a.
Full of pride; haughty. --Tennyson. -- {Pride"ful*ly}, adv.
-- {Pride"ful-ness}, n.
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