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Adjectives (16)
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exultant, exulting, jubilant, prideful, rejoicing, triumphal, triumphant
adj. joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success; "rejoicing crowds filled the streets on VJ Day"; "a triumphal success"; "a triumphant shout"
disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering
adj. having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer
Fuzzynyms (70)
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euphoric
adj. exaggerated feeling of well-being or elation
joyous
adj. full of or characterized by joy; "felt a joyous abandon"; "joyous laughter"
ecstatic, enraptured, rapturous, rapt, rhapsodic
adj. feeling great rapture or delight
beaming, beamy, effulgent, radiant, refulgent
adj. radiating or as if radiating light; "the beaming sun"; "the effulgent daffodils"; "a radiant sunrise"; "a refulgent sunset"
light
adj. designed for ease of movement or to carry little weight; "light aircraft"; "a light truck"
blissful
adj. completely happy and contented; "blissful young lovers"; "in blissful ignorance"
audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent
adj. unrestrained by convention or propriety; "an audacious trick to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times; "bald-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell
contemptuous, disdainful, insulting, scornful
adj. expressing extreme contempt
arch, condescending, patronizing, patronising
adj. (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension
grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous
adj. puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid
adj. ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"
sarcastic
adj. expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds
superior
adj. of or characteristic of high rank or importance; "a superior ruler"
imperious, masterful
adj. able to deal authoritatively with affairs; "dismissed the matter with an imperious wave of her hand"
clannish, cliquish, clubby, snobbish, snobby
adj. befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior
unfriendly
adj. not disposed to friendship or friendliness; "an unfriendly coldness of manner"; "an unfriendly action to take"
aloof, distant, upstage
adj. remote in manner; "stood apart with aloof dignity"; "a distant smile"; "he was upstage with strangers"
chilly, distant
adj. "relations were cool and polite"
recluse, reclusive, withdrawn
adj. withdrawn from society; seeking solitude; "lived an unsocial reclusive life"
authoritarian, dictatorial, overbearing
adj. expecting unquestioning obedience; "the timid child of authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter"
cavalier, high-handed
adj. given to haughty disregard of others
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gladdened, exhilarated
adj. made joyful; "the sun and the wind on his back made him feel exhilarated--happy to be alive"
high, in high spirits
adj. happy and excited and energetic
arrogant, chesty, self-important
adj. having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride; "an arrogant official"; "arrogant claims"; "chesty as a peacock"
big, swelled, vainglorious
adj. feeling self-importance; "too big for his britches"; "had a swelled head"; "he was swelled with pride"
bigheaded, persnickety, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish
adj. (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant; "a snotty little scion of a degenerate family"-Laurent Le Sage; "they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety"
self-aggrandizing, self-aggrandising
adj. of or relating to or characteristic of self-aggrandizement
dignified, self-respecting, self-respectful
adj. having or showing self-esteem
conceited, egotistic, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen, swollen-headed, vain
adj. characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance; "a conceited fool"; "an attitude of self-conceited arrogance"; "an egotistical disregard of others"; "so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty"; "growing ever more swollen-headed and arbitrary"; "vain about her clothes"
glorious, illustrious, honored, respected, honoured
adj. having or worthy of pride; "redoubtable scholar of the Renaissance"; "born of a redoubtable family"
gratifying
adj. occasioning pride; "a gratifying (or proud) achievement"
house-proud
adj. proud of your house or its furnishings or upkeep
overproud
adj. excessively proud
pleased, proud of(p)
adj. feeling pleasurable satisfaction over something by which you measures your self-worth; "proud of their child"
purse-proud
adj. proud or arrogant because of your wealth (especially in the absence of other distinction)
shabby-genteel
adj. trying to maintain dignity and self respect despite shabbiness
Antonyms (6)
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miserable, suffering, wretched
adj. very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"
humble
adj. marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful; "a humble apology"; "essentially humble...and self-effacing, he achieved the highest formal honors and distinctions"- B.K.Malinowski
submissive, deferential
adj. inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination; "submissive servants"; "a submissive reply"; "replacing troublemakers with more submissive people"
prideful
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