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What is the adjective for proud?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb pride which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

proud
  1. Gratified; feeling honoured (by something); feeling satisfied or happy about a fact or event.
  2. Possessed of a due sense of what one is worth or deserves.
  3. (chiefly biblical) Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious.
  4. Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride.
  5. (obsolete) Brave, valiant; gallant.
  6. Standing out or raised; swollen.
  7. Happy, usually used with a sense of honour, as in "I'm so proud to have you in our town." But occasionally just plain happy as in "I'm proud to see gas prices down." This is a widespread colloquial usage in the southern United States.
  8. Synonyms:
      9. fulfilled, gratified, honored, content, contented, delighted, glad, pleased, satisfied, appreciative, spirited, dignified, esteemed, flattered, grateful, happy, honoured, joyful, overjoyed, prideful, thrilled, revered, venerated, well-pleased, pleased as Punch, complacent, smug, chuffed, blissful, well pleased, tickled, joyous, thankful, gruntled, cheerful, mirthful, elated, appeased, felicitous, wrapped, over the moon, cock-a-hoop, tickled pink, made up, like a child with a new toy, as pleased as Punch, pleased as punch, like a dog with two tails, triumphant, pacified … more
  9. Examples:
      10. “My son's outstanding exam results made me proud.”
      “He knew he was wrong, but he was too proud to apologize.”
      “It was a proud day for France when their national football team was crowned the 2018 FIFA World Cup champions.”
proudhearted
  1. Very proud
  2. Arrogant
prideful
  1. (Canada) Full of pride; haughty, arrogant.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. scornful, contemptuous, dismissive, narcissistic, arrogant, cocky, disdainful, egotistical, haughty, imperious, insolent, pretentious, superior, aloof, audacious, egoistic, egoistical, egotistic, overbearing, smug, bigheaded, hifalutin, highfalutin, lofty, lordly, ostentatious, pompous, presumptuous, swellheaded, uppity, assuming, assured, biggety, bloated, boastful, bossy, bragging, cavalier, conceited, cool, domineering, huffy, overweening, proud, smarty, sniffy, snippy, snobbish, snooty, snotty … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Your prideful attitude towards your co-workers is the main cause of much of the disharmony around the office.”
      “Ezra couldn't help but notice the jubilant, prideful smile that bloomed across his girlfriend's face.”
      “There is no-one more prideful about their history, or rather the history of the confederacy.”
proudsome
  1. Characteristically proud; pridesome
prideworthy
  1. Worthy of pride or of being proud.
proudful
  1. Full of pride; excessively proud.
prideless
  1. Without pride; humble.
  2. Examples:
      3. “The soft administrator, the prideless elephant, the biteless snake and the stingless scorpion are slighted in the world.”
      “So broken is he, though he still does his work, that he is prideless and shameless.”
      “Non-normative subjects are not only non-normative, they are also prideless cheapskates who don't take care of themselves.”
pridesome
  1. Characterised or marked by pride
  2. Examples:
      3. “Raw hatred beat down, tearing through the last shreds of her frantic prayers. She was too weak, wretched. A pridesome, wailful sinner playing the harlot with the road.”
proude
  1. Obsolete spelling of proud
proudish
  1. Somewhat proud.
proudest
  1. superlative form of proud: most proud; most proud.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. gladdest, gratefullest, happiest, joyfullest, most fulfilled, most honored, most content, most contented, most delighted, most pleased, most satisfied, most appreciative, most spirited, most dignified, most esteemed, most flattered, most honoured, most overjoyed, most prideful, most thrilled, most revered, cockiest, haughtiest, smuggest, snobbiest, snootiest, uppitiest, vainest, loftiest, coolest, lordliest, high and mightiest, huffiest, sniffiest, surest, brashest, toploftiest, most arrogant, most bigheaded, most presumptuous, most pretentious, most aloof, most dismissive, most egocentric, most narcissistic, most ostentatious, most pompous, most stuck up, most stuck-up, most big-headed … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Bartley once said that his proudest boast was that he produced an editorial page that actually sold newspapers.”
      “He said his proudest moment came when he conducted his brass band at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and was moved to tears by the beautiful playing.”
      “Adonis guessed that he was a Plutonian, because they were always the proudest, no matter what.”
prouder
  1. comparative form of proud: more proud
  2. Synonyms:
      3. higher, purer, loftier, lordlier, more righteous, more virtuous, more ethical, more moral, more honorable, more honourable, more noble, more principled, more upright, more exemplary, better, more admirable, more moralistic, more guiltless, more respectable, more upstanding, wholesomer, more conscientious, more dignified, more high-minded, more incorruptible, more laudable, more reverent, more scrupulous, more self-righteous, honester, more irreprehensible, more right-minded, more sanctimonious, more uncorrupted, more chivalrous, more gallant, more greathearted, more magnanimous, more distinguished, more respected, more venerable, more decent, more great-hearted, finer, more beneficent, more gracious, more independent, statelier, more cultivated, worthier … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Between 1984 and 1987 he personified our inchoate desire to shake free of the Muldoon years and remake ourselves in a bolder, prouder way.”
      “I'm a Texan by birth and by choice in many ways, but I've never been prouder of being a New Yorker than I am now.”
      “With all that he had achieved up to this point, it's evident that this spell was still one of the prouder moments of a glittering career.”
prided
  1. simple past tense and past participle of pride
  2. Synonyms:
      3. piqued, plumed, flattered, congratulated, exulted, felicitated, vaunted, crowed about, gasconaded, pranced, preened, presumed, strutted, swaggered, swelled, swoll, swollen, boasted about, bragged about, flattered oneself, gloried in, reveled in, revelled in, puffed up, held head high … more
priding
  1. present participle of pride
  2. Synonyms:
      3. piquing, pluming, flattering, congratulating, exulting, felicitating, vaunting, crowing about, gasconading, prancing, preening, presuming, strutting, swaggering, swelling, boasting about, bragging about, flattering oneself, glorying in, reveling in, puffing up, holding head high … more
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