What are some opposite words for prideful?
Antonyms for pridefulpride·ful
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Princeton's WordNet
disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggeringadjective
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
Synonyms:
swashbuckling, disdainful, jubilant, exulting, authoritarian, triumphal, contemptuous, triumphant, imperious, sniffy, insulting, exultant, supercilious, rejoicing, overbearing, haughty, grand, scornful, august, lordly, sneering, swaggering, snide, dictatorialexultant, exulting, jubilant, prideful, rejoicing, triumphal, triumphantadjective
joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success
"rejoicing crowds filled the streets on VJ Day"; "a triumphal success"; "a triumphant shout"
Synonyms:
disdainful, jubilant, exulting, triumphal, imperious, rejoicing, joyful, lordly, exultant, gleeful, victorious, supercilious, sniffy, overbearing, haughty, triumphant, swaggering, elated
How to use prideful in a sentence?
When I realized that it was actually September 11, I think that feeling of pride grew about what we had done. I called Ernie at the house and told him. We both agreed that it was a very special thing... He added : One of our flags had been rescued on Patriots Day, and I think we both were very prideful of that.
He's a prideful man and he’s proud of what he is but we’re in a general election campaign and it's going to take all of us pulling on the rope if we’re going to pull the ship to the final line.
There haven't really been too many setbacks, we’re very close to match day, and we’re very prideful and very happy with what we’re going to be able to offer on Wednesday.
I just think he's ... very, very, very prideful, and I think that's what ultimately led up to making his decision too is that ... he didn't want to ask for help. He wanted to do it all by himself.
My deepest fear is not that we are incompatible, My deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure of fire and fuel. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. You’re playing big will not serve the world, me being prideful did not serve me. KB
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