Synonyms: gallant, lofty, majestic, proud
Definition: having or displaying great dignity or nobility
Usage: a gallant pageant; lofty ships; majestic cities; proud alpine peaks
Similar words: impressive
Definition: making a strong or vivid impression
Usage: an impressive ceremony
Synonyms: proud
Definition: feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride
Usage: proud parents; proud of his accomplishments; a proud moment; proud to serve his country; a proud name; proud princes
Similar words: self-important, arrogant, chesty
Definition: having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride
Usage: an arrogant official; arrogant claims; chesty as a peacock
Similar words: beaming
Definition: pleased and proud
Usage: beaming parents
Similar words: big, vainglorious, swelled
Definition: feeling self-importance
Usage: too big for his britches; had a swelled head; he was swelled with pride
Similar words: too big for one's breeches, stuck-up, bigheaded, persnickety, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, uppish
Definition: (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant
Usage: a snotty little scion of a degenerate family-Laurent Le Sage; they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety
Similar words: braggart, bragging, braggy, cock-a-hoop, boastful, crowing, big, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing
Definition: exhibiting self-importance
Usage: big talk
Similar words: self-respectful, self-respecting, dignified
Definition: having or showing self-esteem
Similar words: disdainful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering, overbearing, prideful, lordly, imperious, haughty
Definition: having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy
Usage: 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
Similar words: self-conceited, vain, conceited, egotistic, egotistical, swollen, swollen-headed
Definition: characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance
Usage: 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
Similar words: house-proud
Definition: proud of your house or its furnishings or upkeep
Similar words: overproud
Definition: excessively proud
Similar words: pleased, proud of
Definition: feeling pleasurable satisfaction over something by which you measures your self-worth
Usage: proud of their child
Similar words: purse-proud
Definition: proud or arrogant because of your wealth (especially in the absence of other distinction)
Similar words: shabby-genteel
Definition: trying to maintain dignity and self respect despite shabbiness