Word Definition

Proud

  1. Having a feeling of high self-respect or self-esteem; exulting (in); elated; -- often with of; as, proud of one's country.
  2. Giving reason or occasion for pride or self-gratulation; worthy of admiration; grand; splendid; magnificent; admirable; ostentatious.
  3. Excited by sexual desire; -- applied particularly to the females of some animals.
  4. Possessing or showing too great self-esteem; overrating one's excellences; hence, arrogant; haughty; lordly; presumptuous.
  5. Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense