to be puffed up with pride
1(be) puffed up with pride — be puffed up with ˈpride, etc. idiom to be too full of pride, etc • He felt grown up, puffed up with self importance. Main entry: ↑puffidiom …
2puffed out with — filled with pride …
3puff up with pride — puff (up) with pride ◇ When you puff (up) with pride or when you are puffed (up) with pride, you are very proud and stand or sit up straighter because of it. When his daughter s name was announced as the winner, he puffed up with pride. • • •… …
4puff with pride — puff (up) with pride ◇ When you puff (up) with pride or when you are puffed (up) with pride, you are very proud and stand or sit up straighter because of it. When his daughter s name was announced as the winner, he puffed up with pride. • • •… …
5puffed up — 1. Swollen 2. Inflated with pride, presumption, or the like • • • Main Entry: ↑puff …
6pride — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Sense of self worth Nouns 1. pride, hauteur; dignity, self respect, self esteem, self sufficiency, reserve. 2. (sympton of pride) arrogance, insolence; ostentation; vanity, vainglory, crest, airs, high… …
7Pride — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Pride >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 dignity dignity self respect mens sibi conscia recti =>(Vergil) GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 pride pride Sgm: N 2 haughtiness haughtiness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 2 high not …
8pride — prideful, adj. pridefully, adv. pridefulness, n. prideless, adj. pridelessly, adv. /pruyd/, n., v., prided, priding. n. 1. a high or inordinate opinion of one s own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or… …
9puffed up — Synonyms and related words: aggrandized, aggressively self confident, amplified, ballyhooed, biggety, bloated, bloated with pride, blown up, bumptious, chesty, cocky, conceited, dilated, disproportionate, distended, dropsical, edematous, elated,… …
10proud — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. See pride. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Having a creditable self respect] Syn. self respecting, self sufficient, self reliant, independent, honorable, principled, dignified, stately, noble, lordly,… …
