different between proud vs domineering

English

Alternative forms

• prowd (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English proud, prout, prut, from Old English pr?d, pr?t (“proud, arrogant, haughty”) (compare Old English pr?tung (“pride”); pr?de, pr?te (“pride”)). Cognate with German Low German praud, Old Norse prúðr (“gallant, brave, magnificent, stately, handsome, fine”) (Icelandic prúður, Middle Swedish prudh, Danish prud), probably from Old French prod, prud (“brave, gallant”) (modern French preux), from Late Latin pr?de (“useful”), derived from Latin pr?desse (“to be of value”); however, the Old English umlaut derivatives pr?te, pr?tian, etc. suggest the word may be older and possibly native. See also pride.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?a?d/
• Rhymes: -a?d

Adjective

proud (comparative prouder or more proud, superlative proudest or most proud)

1. Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified.
   1. That makes one feel proud (of something one did)

2. Possessed of a due sense of what one deserves or is worth.
3. (chiefly biblical) Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious.
4. Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride.

5. (Of things) standing upwards as in the manner of a proud person; stately or majestic.
6. Standing out or raised; swollen.

7. (obsolete) Brave, valiant; gallant.
8. (obsolete) Excited by sexual desire; specifically of a female animal: in heat.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:arrogant

Antonyms

• ashamed

Derived terms

Related terms

• pride
• prude

Translations

Anagrams

• pour'd, pudor

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pr?d?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?prou?t]
• Rhymes: -out

Noun

proud m

1. current
2. (electricity) current

Declension

Derived terms

• proud?ní
• proudící
• proudit
• po proudu
• proti proudu
• protiproud

Further reading

• proud in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• proud in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

English

Verb

domineering

1. present participle of domineer

Adjective

domineering (comparative more domineering, superlative most domineering)

1. overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian

Synonyms

• bossy, assertive, dominant, forceful, commanding, pushy, strong-willed, arbitrary, oppressive, regnant
• See also Thesaurus:bossy

Antonyms

• submissive

Translations

Noun

domineering (plural domineerings)

1. The act of one who domineers.

   • In strange contrast to the hardly tolerable constraint and nameless invisible domineerings of the captain's table, was the entire care-free license and ease, the almost frantic democracy of those inferior fellows the harpooneers.