Roget's Thesaurus

#878. Pride

Nouns

dignity, self-respect, mens sibi conscia recti [Lat.] [Vergil]. pride; haughtiness etc. adj.; high notions, hauteur; vainglory, crest; arrogance etc. (assumption) 885. proud man, highflier; fine gentleman, fine lady.

Verbs

be proud etc. adj.; put a good face on; look one in the face; stalk abroad, perk oneself up; think no small beer of oneself; presume, swagger, strut; rear one's head, lift up one's head, hold up one's head; hold one's head high, look big, take the wall, bear like the Turk no rival near the throne [Pope], carry with a high hand; ride the high horse, mount on one's high horse; set one's back up, bridle, toss the head; give oneself airs etc. (assume) 885; boast etc. 884. pride oneself on; glory in, take a pride in; pique oneself, plume oneself, hug oneself; stand upon, be proud of; put a good face on; not hide one's light under a bushel, not put one's talent in a napkin; not think small beer of oneself etc. (vanity) 880.

Adjectives

dignified; stately; proud, proud-crested; lordly, baronial; lofty-minded; highsouled, high-minded, high-mettled, high-handed, high-plumed, high-flown, high-toned. haughty, lofty, high, mighty, swollen, puffed up, flushed, blown; vainglorious; purse-proud, fine; proud as a peacock, proud as Lucifer; bloated with pride. supercilious, disdainful, bumptious, magisterial, imperious, high and mighty, overweening, consequential; arrogant etc. 885; unblushing etc. 880. stiff, stiff-necked; starch; perked stuck-up; in buckram, strait-laced; prim etc. (affected) 855. on one's dignity, on one's high horses, on one's tight ropes, on one's high ropes; on stilts; en grand seigneur [Fr.].

Adverbs

with head erect.

Phrases

odi profanum vulgus et arceo [Lat.] [Horace]. a duke's revenues on her back [Henry VI]; disdains the shadow which he treads on at noon [Coriolanis]; pride in their port, defiance in their eye [Goldsmith].