Word Meanings - PROUD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

prout, prud, prut, AS. prut; akin to Icel. pruedhr stately, handsome, 1. Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense; as: Possessing or showing too great self-esteem; overrating one's excellences; hence, arrogant; haughty; lordly;

Additional info about word: PROUD

prout, prud, prut, AS. prut; akin to Icel. pruedhr stately, handsome, 1. Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense; as: Possessing or showing too great self-esteem; overrating one's excellences; hence, arrogant; haughty; lordly; presumptuous. Nor much expect A foe so proud will first the weaker seek. Milton. O death, made proud with pure and princely beauty ! Shak. And shades impervious to the proud world's glare. Keble. Having a feeling of high self-respect or self-esteem; exulting ; elated; -- often with of; as, proud of one's country. "Proud to be checked and soothed." Keble. Are we proud men proud of being proud Thackeray. 2. Giving reason or occasion for pride or self-gratulation; worthy of admiration; grand; splendid; magnificent; admirable; ostentatious. "Of shadow proud." Chapman. "Proud titles." Shak. " The proud temple's height." Dryden. Till tower, and dome, and bridge-way proud Are mantled with a golden cloud. Keble. 3. Excited by sexual desire; -- applied particularly to the females of some animals. Sir T. Browne. Note: Proud is often used with participles in the formation of compounds which, for the most part, are self-explaining; as, proud- crested, proud-minded, proud-swelling. Proud flesh , a fungous growth or excrescence of granulations resembling flesh, in a wound or ulcer.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROUD)

• Big
• Large
• great
• wide
• huge
• bulky
• proud
• arrogant
• pompous
• fat
• massive
• gross
• Elated
• Cheered
• joyed
• inspirited
• overjoyed
• inflated
• High
• Elevated
• lofty
• tall
• eminent
• excellent
• noble
• haughty
• violent
• exalted
• Lordly
• Lofty
• magnificent
• majestic
• imperious
• Stately
• Dignified
• imposing
• elevated
• lordly
• grand

Related words: (words related to PROUD)

• MAGNIFICENTLY
  In a Magnificent manner.
• IMPOSABLE
  Capable of being imposed or laid on. Hammond.
• INFLATE
  Blown in; inflated. Chaucer.
• GRANDEUR
  The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action. Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye.
• BULKY
  Of great bulk or dimensions; of great size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes. A bulky digest of the revenue laws. Hawthorne.
• PROUDLING
  A proud or haughty person. Sylvester.
• ELATION
  A lifting up by success; exaltation; inriation with pride of prosperity. "Felt the elation of triumph." Sir W. Scott.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• GRANDEESHIP
  The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship. H. Swinburne.
• PROUD
  prout, prud, prut, AS. prut; akin to Icel. pruedhr stately, handsome, 1. Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense; as: Possessing or showing too great self-esteem; overrating one's excellences; hence, arrogant; haughty; lordly;
• INFLATED
  Hollow and distended, as a perianth, corolla, nectary, or pericarp. Martyn. 4. Distended or enlarged fictitiously; as, inflated prices, etc. (more info) 1. Filled, as with air or gas; blown up; distended; as, a balloon inflated with gas. 2. Turgid;
• GRANDMA; GRANDMAMMA
  A grand mother.
• GRANDUNCLE
  father's or mother's uncle.
• MASSIVELY
  In a heavy mass.
• NOBLEWOMAN
  A female of noble rank; a peeress.
• IMPOSINGNESS
  The quality of being imposing.
• CHEERINESS
  The state of being cheery.
• IMPOSTRESS; IMPOSTRIX
  A woman who imposes upon or deceives others. Fuller.
• EXALTMENT
  Exaltation. Barrow.
• PRELATIST
  One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
• UPCHEER
  To cheer up. Spenser.
• MANDELATE
  A salt of mandelic acid.
• GELATIFICATION
  The formation of gelatin.
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• PRELATISM
  Prelacy; episcopacy.
• CRENELATION
  The act of crenelating, or the state of being crenelated; an indentation or an embrasure.
• PRELATIZE
  To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey.
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• ANHELATION
  Short and rapid breathing; a panting; asthma. Glanvill.