Dictionary Entry
proud
proud is a 5-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 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 10 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1superlative
Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense
- 2superlative
Possessing or showing too great self-esteem; overrating one's excellences; hence, arrogant; haughty; lordly; presumptuous.
- 3superlative
Having a feeling of high self-respect or self-esteem; exulting (in); elated; -- often with of; as, proud of one's country.
- 4superlative
Giving reason or occasion for pride or self-gratulation; worthy of admiration; grand; splendid; magnificent; admirable; ostentatious.
- 5superlative
Excited by sexual desire; -- applied particularly to the females of some animals.
- 6adjective
having or displaying great dignity or nobility
"a gallant pageant"
"lofty ships"
- 7adjective
feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride
"proud parents"
"proud of his accomplishments"
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