proud: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 8 letter points · starts with P · ends with D
Meaning of proud
adj
Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified.
Example: We're proud of having won / to have won.
Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified. That makes one feel proud (of something one did)
Example: That was not the proudest thing I did but I can’t deny it.
Possessed of a due sense of what one deserves or is worth.
Example: I was too proud to apologise.
Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious, prideful.
Listed forms: prouder, proudest, prowd.
Source: Wiktionary — proud.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
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adjective
having or displaying great dignity or nobility
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
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| American English | Found |
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Letter-value score of proud
P(3) + R(1) + O(1) + U(1) + D(2) = 8 points.
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Anagrams of proud
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
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Shorter words from proud
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