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Synonyms & Antonyms of pride
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1
a reasonable or justifiable sense of one's worth or importance
- finishing that survival course gave me a real sense of pride and confidence in my abilities
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2
an asset that brings praise or renown
- an architectural and acoustical masterpiece, the concert hall is the pride of the whole city
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3
an often unjustified feeling of being pleased with oneself or with one's situation or achievements
- so full of pride that they were ripe for a big comedown
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- amour propre,
- bighead,
- complacence,
- complacency,
- conceit,
- conceitedness,
- ego,
- egotism,
- pomposity,
- pompousness,
- pridefulness,
- self-admiration,
- self-assumption,
- self-conceit,
- self-congratulation,
- self-esteem,
- self-glory,
- self-importance,
- self-love,
- self-opinion,
- self-satisfaction,
- smugness,
- swelled head,
- swellheadedness,
- vaingloriousness,
- vainglory,
- vainness,
- vanity
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individuals carefully selected as being the best of a class
- crackerjack test pilots who are the pride of the navy's air arm
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- A-list,
- aristocracy,
- best,
- choice,
- corps d'elite,
- cream,
- crème de la crème,
- elect,
- elite,
- fat,
- flower,
- illuminati,
- pick,
- pink,
- priesthood,
- prime,
- royalty,
- upper crust
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The first known use of pride was before the 12th century
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