proud
Definition of proud:
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part of speech: adjective
Having excessive selfesteem: arrogant: haughty: daring: grand: ostentatious.
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part of speech: adjective
Having inordinate self- esteem; lofty of mien; grand of person; possessing an unreasonable opinion of one's own excellence; conceited; arrogant; haughty; diseased or fungous, as proud flesh.
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part of speech: adverb
Proudly.
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Common misspellings:
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- prode (2.9%)
- porud (1.7%)
- roud (0.3%)
- priod (0.3%)
- pround (53.9%)
- prouds (0.6%)
- praud (0.6%)
- prooud (1.2%)
- proad (4.6%)
- prould (2.9%)
- pourd (2.3%)
- proude (11.0%)
- poud (3.2%)
- rpoud (1.4%)
- prond (0.6%)
- prud (2.0%)
- orooud (0.6%)
- prowed (0.3%)
- proued (0.6%)
- prood (1.2%)
- prowd (5.2%)
- pruod (1.2%)
- priud (0.6%)
- prold (0.6%)
- proudt (0.6%)
Usage examples for proud:
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He wished also to say at this point that he, himself, was not at all proud of what he had done.
"The Late Mrs. Null" – Frank Richard Stockton -
And it was so true she wasn't in the least proud of it.
"The Garden Party" – Katherine Mansfield -
We were very happy that Christmas, and very proud of our boys.
"Chantry House" – Charlotte M. Yonge -
She had been proud of Percy to- day.
"The Luckiest Girl in the School" – Angela Brazil
