4.3.2.3 Proud
Use this domain for words referring to being proud--to think that something or someone is very good and to feel very good about them, especially to think and feel very good about yourself--to think that you are better than others, to think that you are better than you really are, or to talk and act as if you were better than other people.
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(1) What words refer to being proud of something or someone?
Example words: be proud of, be pleased with, be delighted with, be thrilled with, take pride in, pride yourself on
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(2) What words refer to being proud of yourself?
Example words: be proud of yourself, be full of yourself, fancy yourself, let something go to your head
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(3) What words refer to being satisfied with yourself?
Example words: self-satisfied, smug, pleased with yourself, complacent
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(4) What words refer to thinking you are more important than you really are?
Example words: self-important, pompous, jumped up, have delusions of grandeur, get too big for your boots/britches
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(5) What words refer to thinking you are better than other people?
Example words: snobbish, snobby, haughty, snooty, snotty, superior, stuck-up, class-conscious
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(6) What words describe someone who is proud?
Example words: proud, aloof, arrogant, big-headed, boastful, brash, conceited, contemptuous, egocentric, egotistic, egotistical, hoity-toity, imperious, inflated, lofty, ostentatious, pretentious, prideful, proud hearted, puffed up, self-aggrandizing, self-confident, uppity, vain
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(7) What words refer to behaving in a proud way toward other people?
Example words: look down on, look down your nose at, be beneath you, think you're too good for
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(8) What words refer to the quality of being proud?
Example words: pride, sense of achievement, aloofness, arrogance, audacity, conceit, egotism, flashiness, haughtiness, hauteur, loftiness, ostentation, pretension, self-importance, self-respect, self-will, showiness, snobbery, snobbishness, vanity
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(9) What words refer to a proud person?
Example words: snob, prig
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(10) What words refer to something or someone you are proud of?
Example words: be someone's pride and joy, be the pride of, be a credit to
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(11) What words refer to something making someone proud?
Example words: go to your head
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(12) What words refer to stopping someone from behaving proudly by criticizing them?
Example words: put someone in their place, wipe the smile off someone's face, cut someone down to size