Prowd vs. Proud

Prowdadjective

obsolete form of proud

Proudadjective

Gratified; feeling honoured (by something); feeling satisfied or happy about a fact or event.

‘I am proud of Sivu's schoolwork.’;

Proudadjective

Possessed of a due sense of what one is worth or deserves.

‘I was too proud to apologise.’;

Proudadjective

Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious.

Proudadjective

Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride.

‘It was a proud day when we finally won the championship.’;

Proudadjective

(obsolete) Brave, valiant; gallant.

Proudadjective

Standing out or raised; swollen.

‘After it had healed, the scar tissue stood proud of his flesh.’;

Proudadjective

(obsolete) Excited by sexual desire; (of female animals) in heat.

Proudadjective

Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense

‘Nor much expectA foe so proud will first the weaker seek.’; ‘O death, made proud with pure and princely beauty !’; ‘And shades impervious to the proud world's glare.’;

Proudadjective

Having a feeling of high self-respect or self-esteem; exulting (in); elated; - often with of; as, proud of one's country.

‘Are we proud men proud of being proud ?’;

Proudadjective

Giving reason or occasion for pride or self-gratulation; worthy of admiration; grand; splendid; magnificent; admirable; ostentatious.

‘Till tower, and dome, and bridge-way proudAre mantled with a golden cloud.’;

Proudadjective

Excited by sexual desire; - applied particularly to the females of some animals.

Proudadjective

feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride;

‘proud parents’; ‘proud of his accomplishments’; ‘a proud moment’; ‘proud to serve his country’; ‘a proud name’; ‘proud princes’;

Proudadjective

having or displaying great dignity or nobility;

‘a gallant pageant’; ‘lofty ships’; ‘majestic cities’; ‘proud alpine peaks’;

Proudadjective

feeling deep pleasure or satisfaction as a result of one's own achievements, qualities, or possessions or those of someone with whom one is closely associated

‘a proud grandma of three boys’; ‘she got nine passes and he was so proud of her’;

Proudadjective

(of an event, achievement, etc.) causing someone to feel proud

‘we have a proud history of innovation’;

Proudadjective

having or showing a high or excessively high opinion of oneself or one's importance

‘he was a proud, arrogant man’;

Proudadjective

conscious of one's own dignity

‘I was too proud to go home’;

Proudadjective

imposing; splendid

‘bulrushes emerge tall and proud from the middle of the pond’;

Proudadjective

slightly projecting from a surface

‘balls standing proud of the fabric’;

Proudadjective

denoting flesh that has grown round a healing wound with excessive granulation of the tissues.