different between proud vs imperious

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

Etymology

From Latin imperi?sus (“mighty, powerful”), from imperium (“command, authority, power”)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?p???i.?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?p??i.?s/
• Rhymes: -??ri?s

Adjective

imperious (not comparable)

1. Domineering, arrogant, or overbearing.
   • 1866 – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth

     ...she glanced about her in an imperious, challenging sort of way, with looks and gestures that clearly were unstudied.

2. Urgent.
   • 1891 – Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

     Circumstances of an imperious nature, which it is unnecessary to relate here, had prevented him from taking service with that gallant army which had fought the disastrous campaigns ending with the fall of Corinth.

3. (obsolete) Imperial or regal.
   • 1899 – Stephen Crane, The Angel Child, Whilomville Stories

     She was quick, beautiful, imperious, while he was quiet, slow, and misty.

Synonyms

• (domineering): authoritarian, bossy, dictatorial, domineering, overbearing

Related terms

Translations