pride

pride is a 5-letter English word with 16 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis); -- called also prid, and sandpiper. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis); -- called also prid, and sandpiper.
2. noun. The quality or state of being proud; inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank, etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve, and often in contempt of others.
3. noun. A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; -- in a good sense.
4. noun. Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain.
5. noun. That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children, etc.
6. noun. Show; ostentation; glory.
7. noun. Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory; as, to be in the pride of one's life.
8. noun. Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness; hence, lust; sexual desire; esp., an excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast.
9. transitive verb. To indulge in pride, or self-esteem; to rate highly; to plume; -- used reflexively.
10. intransitive verb. To be proud; to glory.
11. noun. unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins)

    Synonyms: superbia

12. noun. the trait of being spurred on by a dislike of falling below your standards
13. noun. a feeling of self-respect and personal worth

    Synonyms: pridefulness

14. noun. satisfaction with your (or another's) achievements

    "he takes pride in his son's success"

15. noun. a group of lions
16. verb. be proud of

    "He prides himself on making it into law school"

    Synonyms: congratulate, plume

Synonyms

superbia, pridefulness, congratulate, plume

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in pride:

pried, redip, riped

Common word forms

prided, prides, priding, prideful, prideless

Words from these letters

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