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Proud

praʊd

Proud definitions

adjective

Inflections:

proud prouder proudest

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"

Synonyms:
pleased (with) glad (about/at) happy (about/at/with) delighted (about/at/with) joyful (at) overjoyed (at/over) thrilled (at/about/by/with) well pleased (with) satisfied (with) gratified (at) content (at) appreciative (of)
- (of an event, achievement, etc.) causing someone to feel proud
  
  "we have a proud history of innovation"
having or showing a high or excessively high opinion of oneself or one's importance

"he was a proud, arrogant man"

Synonyms:
haughty conceited self-important opinionated egotistic full of oneself superior
- conscious of one's own dignity
  
  "I was too proud to go home"
- imposing; splendid
  
  "bulrushes emerge tall and proud from the middle of the pond"
slightly projecting from a surface

"balls standing proud of the fabric"

Synonyms:
projecting sticking out/up jutting jutting out protruding prominent raised convex elevated
- denoting flesh that has grown round a healing wound with excessive granulation of the tissues