different between proud vs misproud

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 Middle English misproud, equivalent to mis- +? proud.

Adjective

misproud (comparative more misproud, superlative most misproud)

1. (archaic) Unduly or unwarrantably proud or vain; wrongly proud; arrogant; haughty. [15th-19th c.]
   • 1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte:

     It is grete scorne to se a mysproude knave / With a clerke that connynge is to prate: / Lete theym go lowse theym, in the devylles date.

   • 1838, Knickerbocker, or, New-York monthly magazine - Volume 11 - Page 124:

     [...] dismount two hundred of our best dragooners, and, under Fight-the-good-fight Egerton, let them file down that gully to our left, and fire constantly on the advance of these misproud malignants.

   • 1904, The Lutheran observer - Volume 72 - Page 441:

     See, in the distance advancing, Richmond's misproud array, Fighting for Henry the traitor.

   • 2002, Algernon Charles Swinburne, L. M. Findlay, Selected Poems:

     Yet was the song acclaimed of these aloud Whose praise had made mute bumbleness misproud, [...]

   • 2004, Henry William Herbert, Cromwell An Historical Novel:

     "[...] He hath, I know not how, wrung forth a noble haunch of venison and store of Bourdeaux wine from some misproud malignant here at Naseby!"

Anagrams

• duoprism