proud

Meaning of proud

adjective
  1. feeling deep pleasure or satisfaction as a result of one's own achievements, qualities, or possessions or those of someone with whom one is closely associated.
    a proud grandma of three boys
    she got nine passes and he was so proud of her
  2. having or showing a high or excessively high opinion of oneself or one's importance.
    he was a proud, arrogant man
  3. slightly projecting from a surface.
    balls standing proud of the fabric

late Old English prūt, prūd ‘having a high opinion of one's own worth’, from Old French prud ‘valiant’, based on Latin prodesse ‘be of value’. The phrase proud flesh dates back to late Middle English, but the sense ‘slightly projecting’ is first recorded in English dialect of the 19th century.

Information about proud

  • It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of proud

proud

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • proud is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

proud synonyms

Meaning gallant:

gallant, lofty, majestic

Meaning extending outwards beyond something else; protruding:

projecting

Meaning extend out, over, or beyond the main body or line of something:

jutting

Meaning sticking out; projecting:

protruding

Meaning projecting from something; protuberant:

prominent

Meaning elevated to a higher position or level; lifted:

raised

Meaning having an outline or surface curved like the exterior of a circle or sphere:

convex

Meaning situated or placed higher than the surrounding area:

elevated

proud antonyms

Meaning embarrassed or guilty because of one's actions, characteristics, or associations:

ashamed

Meaning having an outline or surface that curves inwards like the interior of a circle or sphere:

concave

Meaning (of a person's skin, face, etc.) become red and hot, typically as the result of illness or strong emotion:

flush

Translation of proud

Anagrams of proud

pudor

Words that rhyme with proud

roud, droud, beshroud, disenshroud, disshroud, enshroud, foreshroud, overshroud, shroud, unshroud, Giroud, Proud, houseproud, misproud, overproud, ultraproud, unproud, Stroud, stroud

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