prideful

/ˈpraɪdfəl/

/ˈpraɪdfəl/

Other forms: pridefully

Someone who's prideful is arrogant and disdainful. Prideful people don't usually have many friends, since they think they're superior to everyone else.

Although the adjective prideful is occasionally used simply to mean "proud," or pleased and happy because of some achievement or quality, it usually means something closer to "haughty." If you know someone who's beyond proud, believing they're smarter, more beautiful, or just generally better than most other people, you can describe that person as prideful.

Definitions of prideful

1. adjective

   having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy
   “walked with a prideful swagger”

   synonyms: disdainful, haughty, imperious, lofty, lordly, overbearing, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering

   proud

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

   joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success
   synonyms: exultant, exulting, jubilant, rejoicing, triumphal, triumphant

   elated, giddy

   exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits