Synonyms of the word

proud

• adj. Gratified; feeling honoured (by something); feeling satisfied or happy about a fact or event.
• adj. Possessed of a due sense of what one is worth or deserves.
• adj. (chiefly biblical) Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious.
• adj. Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride.
• adj. (obsolete) Brave, valiant; gallant.
• adj. Standing out or raised; swollen.
• adj. (obsolete) Excited by sexual desire; (of female animals) in heat.
• adj. Happy, usually used with a sense of honour, as in "I'm so proud to have you in our town." But occasionally…

arrogant

• adj. Having excessive pride in oneself, often with contempt or disrespect for others.

beaming

• adj. Smilingly happy; showing happy emotion.
• v. present participle of beam.
• n. The act of someone or something that beams.

big

• adj. Of great size, large.
• adj. (of an industry or other field) Thought to have undue influence.
• adj. Popular.
• adj. (informal) Adult.
• adj. (informal) Fat.
• adj. (informal) Important or significant.
• adj. (informal, with on) Enthusiastic (about).
• adj. (informal) Mature, conscientious, principled.
• adj. (informal) Well-endowed, possessing large breasts in the case of a woman or a large penis in the case…
• adj. (sometimes figuratively) Large with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce.
• adj. (informal) Used as an intensifier, especially of negative-valence nouns.
• adj. (of a city) populous.
• adv. In a loud manner.
• adv. In a boasting manner.
• adv. In a large amount or to a large extent.
• adv. On a large scale, expansively.
• adv. Hard.
• n. Someone or something that is large in stature.
• n. An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name.
• n. (as plural) The big leagues, big time.
• v. (transitive) To praise or recommend.
• v. (transitive, archaic or Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) to inhabit; occupy.
• v. (reflexive, archaic or Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) to locate oneself.
• v. (transitive, archaic or Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) to build; erect; fashion.
• v. (intransitive, archaic or Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) to dwell; have a dwelling.
• n. One or more kinds of barley, especially six-rowed barley.

bigheaded

• adj. Alternative spelling of big-headed.

boastful

• adj. Tending to boast or brag.

braggart

• n. someone who boasts.

bragging

• n. The act of one who brags.
• v. present participle of brag.

braggy

• adj. Prone to brag.

chesty

• adj. (of a woman) Having large breasts; busty.
• adj. (of a cough or cold) Not dry; involving the coughing of phlegm.
• adj. Coming from, or associated with, the chest.

cock-a-hoop

• adj. Exultant, very happy, triumphant.

conceited

• adj. Having an excessively favorable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.; vain and egotistical.
• adj. (rhetoric, literature) Having an ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form…
• adj. (obsolete) Endowed with fancy or imagination.
• adj. (obsolete) Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of conceit.

crowing

• v. present participle of crow.
• n. A cry of joy or pleasure.

dignified

• adj. respectable.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of dignify.

disdainful

• adj. Showing contempt or scorn; having a pronounced lack of concern for others viewed as unworthy.

egotistic

• adj. Egotistical.

egotistical

• adj. Tending to talk excessively about oneself.
• adj. Believing oneself to be better and more important than others.
• adj. Egoistical.

gallant

• adj. Brave, valiant.
• adj. Honorable.
• adj. Grand, noble.
• adj. (obsolete) Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed.
• adj. Polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous.
• n. (dated) Fashionable young man, who is polite and attentive to women.
• n. One who woos, a lover, a suitor, a seducer.
• n. An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.
• n. (nautical) topgallant.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To attend or wait on (a lady).
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To handle with grace or in a modish manner.

glorious

• adj. Exhibiting attributes, qualities, or acts that are worthy of or receive glory.
• adj. excellent, wonderful.
• adj. Splendid; resplendent; bright; shining, as the sun, gold, or other shiny objects.
• adj. (obsolete) Eager for glory or distinction; haughty; boastful; ostentatious; vainglorious.
• adj. (archaic, colloquial) Ecstatic; hilarious; elated with drink.

gratifying

• v. present participle of gratify.

haughty

• adj. Conveying in demeanour the assumption of superiority; disdainful, supercilious.

house-proud

• adj. Proud of one's house, its furnishings, or its upkeep.

illustrious

• adj. dignified, well-known, respected, admired; especially for past achievements or athel qualities.

immodest

• adj. Without customary restraint or modesty of expression; shameless.

impressive

• adj. Making, or tending to make, a positive impression; having power to impress.
• adj. Capable of being impressed.
• adj. Appealing.

lofty

• adj. high, tall, having great height or stature.
• adj. idealistic, implying over-optimism.
• adj. extremely proud; arrogant; haughty.

lordly

• adj. Of or relating to a lord.
• adj. Having the qualities of a lord; lordlike; noble.
• adj. Appropriate for, or suitable to, a lord; glorious.
• adj. Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent.
• adv. In the manner of a lord. Showing command or nobility.

majestic

• adj. Having qualities of splendor or royalty.

overproud

• adj. Excessively proud.

persnickety

• adj. (US) Fastidious or fussy.
• adj. Obsessive about mundane details, demanding for precision.

pleased

• adj. happy, content.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of please.

prideful

• adj. (chiefly Scotland, Canada, US) Full of pride; haughty, arrogant.

purse-proud

• adj. Haughty in the possession of riches.

redoubtable

• adj. Eliciting respect or fear; imposing; awe-inspiring.

respected

• adj. Deserving of respect; due special honor or appreciation.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of respect.

self-aggrandizing

• adj. Boastful; intended to make oneself seem more important.

self-conceited

• adj. Having self-conceit; vain; having a high or overweening opinion of one's own person or merits.

self-important

• adj. Having, or behaving as if having, too high an opinion of one's own importance.

self-respecting

• adj. Having self-respect; having pride or knowledge of one's own worth.

sniffy

• adj. Disdainful; haughty.
• adj. Characterised by sniffing.

snooty

• adj. pompous; snobbish; inclined to turn up one's nose.
• adj. elite; exclusive.

snot-nosed

• adj. (idiomatic) Young and arrogant or conceited.

snotty

• adj. Running or dirtied with snot.
• adj. Resembling or characteristic of snot, especially in texture.
• adj. (informal) Ill-tempered or impertinent in an arrogant, conceited manner.
• n. (Australia, slang) The lion's mane jellyfish, which secretes a mucus that can foul fishing nets.

stuck-up

• adj. Alternative spelling of stuck up.

supercilious

• adj. Arrogantly superior; showing contemptuous indifference; haughty.

swaggering

• v. present participle of swagger.
• adj. Boastful, proud, self-confident.
• n. Boastful, blustering behaviour.

swelled

• v. simple past tense and past participle of swell.

swollen

• adj. distended.
• v. past participle of swell.

uppish

• adj. (since circa 1678) Having plenty of money.
• adj. (colloquial) Proud; arrogant; assuming; putting on airs of superiority.
• adj. (cricket, of a shot) In which the ball is hit into the air, with the chance of being caught.

vain

• adj. Overly proud of oneself, especially concerning appearance; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments…
• adj. Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying.
• adj. Effecting no purpose; pointless, futile.
• adj. Showy; ostentatious.

vainglorious

• adj. With excessive vanity or unwarranted pride.