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Haughty vs. Pride — What's the Difference?

Haughty vs. Pride — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Haughty and Pride

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Haughty

Scornfully and condescendingly proud.

Pride

Pride is positive emotional response or attitude to something with an intimate connection to oneself, due to its perceived value. Oxford defines it amongst other things as "the quality of having an excessively high opinion of oneself or one's own importance" This may be related to one's own abilities or achievements, positive characteristics of friends or family, or one's country.

Haughty

Conveying in demeanour the assumption of superiority; disdainful, supercilious.

Pride

A sense of one's own proper dignity or value; self-respect.

Haughty

High; lofty; bold.
To measure the most haughty mountain's height.
Equal unto this haughty enterprise.
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Pride

Pleasure or satisfaction taken in an achievement, possession, or association
Parental pride.

Haughty

Disdainfully or contemptuously proud; arrogant; overbearing.
A woman of a haughty and imperious nature.

Pride

Arrogant or disdainful conduct or treatment; haughtiness.

Haughty

Indicating haughtiness; as, a haughty carriage.
Satan, with vast and haughty strides advanced,Came towering.

Pride

A cause or source of pleasure or satisfaction; the best of a group or class
These soldiers were their country's pride.

Haughty

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

Pride

The most successful or thriving condition; prime
The pride of youth.

Pride

An excessively high opinion of oneself; conceit.

Pride

Mettle or spirit in horses.

Pride

(Zoology) A group of lions, usually consisting of several related females and their offspring and a small number of unrelated adult males.

Pride

A flamboyant or impressive group
A pride of acrobats.

Pride

To indulge (oneself) in a feeling of pleasure or satisfaction
I pride myself on this beautiful garden.

Pride

The quality or state of being proud; an unreasonable overestimation of one's own superiority in terms of talents, looks, wealth, importance etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve and often contempt of others.

Pride

A sense of one's own worth, and scorn for what is beneath or unworthy of oneself; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; rejection of shame
He took pride in his work.
He had pride of ownership in his department.

Pride

Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation.

Pride

That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-congratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children, etc.

Pride

Show; ostentation; glory.

Pride

Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory.

Pride

Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness.

Pride

Lust; sexual desire; especially, excitement of sexual appetite in a female animal.

Pride

A company of lions or other large felines.
A pride of lions often consists of a dominant male, his harem and their offspring, but young adult males 'leave home' to roam about as bachelors pride until able to seize/establish a family pride of their own.

Pride

(zoology) The small European lamprey species Petromyzon branchialis.

Pride

(reflexive) To take or experience pride in something; to be proud of it.
I pride myself on being a good judge of character.

Pride

A small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis); - called also prid, and sandpiper.

Pride

The quality or state of being proud; inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank, etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve, and often in contempt of others.
Those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt.

Pride

A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; - in a good sense.
Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride.
A people which takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.

Pride

Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain.
Let not the foot of pride come against me.
That hardly we escaped the pride of France.

Pride

That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children, etc.
Lofty trees yclad with summer's pride.
I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
A bold peasantry, their country's pride.

Pride

Show; ostentation; glory.
Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war.

Pride

Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory; as, to be in the pride of one's life.
A falcon, towering in her pride of place.

Pride

Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness; hence, lust; sexual desire; esp., an excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast.

Pride

To indulge in pride, or self-esteem; to rate highly; to plume; - used reflexively.
Pluming and priding himself in all his services.

Pride

To be proud; to glory.

Pride

A feeling of self-respect and personal worth

Pride

Satisfaction with your (or another's) achievements;
He takes pride in his son's success

Pride

The trait of being spurred on by a dislike of falling below your standards

Pride

A group of lions

Pride

Unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins)

Pride

Be proud of;
He prides himself on making it into law school

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