Arrogant vs. Prideful — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Arrogant and Prideful
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Definitions
Arrogant➦
Having or displaying excessive pride in oneself or an excessive sense of self-importance.
Prideful➦
Having an excessively high opinion of oneself
A stern and prideful schoolmaster
Arrogant➦
Marked by or arising from a feeling or assumption of one's superiority over others
An arrogant contempt for the weak.
Prideful➦
Arrogant; disdainful.
Arrogant➦
Having excessive pride in oneself, often with contempt or disrespect for others.
Prideful➦
Highly pleased; elated.
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Arrogant➦
Making, or having the disposition to make, exorbitant claims of rank or estimation; giving one's self an undue degree of importance; assuming; haughty; - applied to persons.
Arrogant Winchester, that haughty prelate.
Prideful➦
Full of pride; haughty, arrogant.
Arrogant➦
Containing arrogance; marked with arrogance; proceeding from undue claims or self-importance; - applied to things; as, arrogant pretensions or behavior.
Prideful➦
Full of pride; haughty.
Arrogant➦
Having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride;
An arrogant official
Arrogant claims
Chesty as a peacock
Prideful➦
Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy;
Some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines
Haughty aristocrats
His lordly manners were offensive
Walked with a prideful swagger
Very sniffy about breaches of etiquette
His mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air
Shaggy supercilious camels
A more swaggering mood than usual
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Prideful➦
Joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success;
Rejoicing crowds filled the streets on VJ Day
A triumphal success
A triumphant shout
