SELF-REGARD Synonyms: 96 Similar and Opposite Words

self-regard

noun

ˌself-ri-ˈgärd

as in selfness

excessive interest in oneself her self-regard meant that she assumed everyone wanted to hear about every tiny detail of her life

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as in pride

a reasonable or justifiable sense of one's worth or importance people with enough self-regard to keep their modest home in spotless condition

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Recent Examples of self-regard This was precisely the space occupied by Andersen’s emperor, whose solipsism and stubborn self-regard were visible, even if his clothes were not. —

Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025 Whatever lasting arguments his theory might have ignited seem to have given way to an understanding of an endowment as an end in itself, a stand-in for a university’s purpose, a rejection of the idea that underlying a belief in institutional eternity is an alienating self-regard. —

Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025 Read: Justin Trudeau’s performative self-regard First, though, Canadians, like Ontarians before them, will have to decide their votes by answering a single question: Who will best defend them from Trump’s attacks? —

Chris Jones, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2025 Here, unable to transcend his previous work, the Englishman smothers the same performance in whinging self-regard. —

Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Feb. 2025 George Kennan, a man of soaring self-regard, might have said that. —

Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 11 Feb. 2025 But close observers of Trump’s political ups and downs understand a key to understanding the chaos: his mountainous self-regard. —

Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 22 Dec. 2024

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But since his 2016 debut, Bad Bunny has emerged as the leader of a new cohort of barrier-breaking artists, among them Karol G, J Balvin, Anitta and Peso Pluma, who are globalizing the genre and redefining crossover appeal with their fierce cultural pride.

— Edward Segarra, USA Today, 5 Feb. 2026
No reward, other than the pride of having survived.

— Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Feb. 2026