Entry Word: proud

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 having or displaying feelings of scorn for what is regarded as beneath oneself <the unemployed woman was too proud to take a job as a maid>

Synonyms disdainful, haughty, highfalutin, lofty, lordly, prideful, superior

Related Words complacent, conceited, egoistic, egotistic (or egotistical), important, self-assertive, self-conceited, self-important, self-satisfied, smug, uppity, vain, vainglorious; arrogant, pretentious, snobbish, stuck-up, supercilious; cavalier, overbearing, overweening, peremptory, swaggering; high-sounding, pompous; condescending, patronizing; cocky, overconfident, presumptuous; bloated, boastful, bombastic; audacious, bold, brash, brassy, cheeky, cocksure, forward, impertinent, impudent, saucy; confident, presuming, self-assured, self-confident, sure; domineering, high-handed, imperious; self-centered, selfish; dominating, magisterial, masterful

Near Antonyms demure, homely, meek, unassuming, unpretentious; bashful, retiring, shy, timid; diffident, self-doubting; acquiescent, compliant, deferential, resigned, submissive, unassertive, yielding; apologetic, cowering, cringing, shrinking; passive, quiet, reserved, subdued, unobtrusive

Antonyms humble, lowly, modest

2 having too high an opinion of oneself <a proud cheerleader who thought she should be treated like royalty> — see conceited
3 large and impressive in size, grandeur, extent, or conception <proud old castles> — see grand 1