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Definition: Prideful |
PridefulAdjective1. 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. 2. Joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success; "rejoicing crowds filled the streets on VJ Day"; "a triumphal success"; "a triumphant shout". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "prideful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1885. (references) |
Synonyms: PridefulSynonyms: disdainful (adj), exultant (adj), exulting (adj), haughty (adj), jubilant (adj), lordly (adj), rejoicing (adj), sniffy (adj), supercilious (adj), swaggering (adj), triumphal (adj), triumphant (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Prideful |
| English words defined with "prideful": disdainful ♦ haughty, humble ♦ lordly ♦ sniffy, supercilious, swaggering. (references) |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | We can never again stand aside, prideful in isolation. |
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| "Prideful" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Prideful" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Beginning with "prideful": Prideful-ness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "prideful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | krenar (high minded, proud, sublime). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | горделив (haughty, proud, proud-spirited), надменен (airy, aloof, arrogant, assuming, assumptive, contemptuous, cool, disdainful, haughty, high, high and mighty, imperious, lofty, offhand, offish, overbearing, overweening, proud, proud-stomached, remote, scornful, stand offish, stiff, stuck up, sublime, supercilious, superior, top-lofty, uppish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | stolz (boast, elation, fancy, glory, haughtily, haughtiness, haughty, impressive, loftily, lofty, majestic, pride, princely, proud, proudly, proudness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | υπερήφανοσ (prance, proud, uppish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pökhendi, dölyfös (assuming, haughty, high and mighty, imperious, supercilious), büszke (ikey, lofty, proud, supercilious), arrogáns (arrogant, be arrogant, haughty, to put on the high-and-mighty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | idefulpray гордый (elate, high minded, lordly, proud, proud-spirited). (various references) orgulloso (haughty, lofty, proud, proudhearted). (various references) чванькуватий (highbrow, snooty), гордий (high minded, proud, proud-hearted, proud-spirited). (various references) tự phụ tự h o. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "prideful": pridefully, pridefulness, pridefulnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Prideful" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gridful, pipeful, pipefuls, pridefully, riverful. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "prideful" (pronounced 'Pride"ful'): Abuseful, Affrightful, Aidful, Amazeful, Amendful, Annoyful, Armful, Artful, Assistful, Avengeful, Aviseful, Awful, Baleful, Baneful, Barful, Bashful, Bateful, Batful, Beamful, Behooveful, Beliefful, Blameful, Blissful, Blitheful, Blushful, Boastful, Boatful, Bodeful, Bookful, Breathful, Bretful, Brimful, Capful, Careful, Causeful, Chanceful, Changeful, Chargeful, Charmful, Cheerful, Choiceful, Complaintful, Contentful, Corruptful, Crimeful, Cropful, Cupful, Dareful, Darkful, Deathful. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-f-i-l-p-r-u" | |
-1 letter: direful, purfled, upfield. | |
-2 letters: furled, ireful, pilfer, purfle, purled, rifled. | |
-3 letters: drupe, duper, duple, felid, field, filed, filer, fired, flied, flier, flued, fluid, fried, idler, lifer, lured, lurid, perdu, peril, piled, plied, plier, pride, pried, prude, puled, puler, redip, rifle, riled, riped, ruled. | |
-4 letters: defi, deil, delf, deli, diel, dire, dirl, drip, duel, dupe. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-f-i-l-p-r-u" | |
+1 letter: dipperful. | |
+2 letters: dipperfuls, pridefully, superfluid. | |
+3 letters: superfluids. | |
+4 letters: perfidiously, prequalified, pridefulness. | |
+5 letters: disrespectful, splendiferous, superfluidity. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 72 69 64 65 66 75 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-. .. -.. . ..-. ..- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01110010 01101001 01100100 01100101 01100110 01110101 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P r i d e f u l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0072 0069 0064 0065 0066 0075 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5084757071728778 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Speeches 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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