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pridesome

pridesome adjective: characterised or marked by pride.

Adjective

pridesome (comparative more pridesome, superlative most pridesome)

  1. Characterised or marked by pride
    • Chance shoved his mug over in front of his apprentice, who bobbed his head in gratitude. "Well done!" Chance said, and immediately diverted his attention from the pridesome youth.2003, Lynn Abbey, Thieves' World
    • Raw hatred beat down, tearing through the last shreds of her frantic prayers. She was too weak, wretched. A pridesome, wailful sinner playing the harlot with the road.2009, John B. Olson, Powers

Examples of pridesome in a sentence

  • The Clodhoppers are a pridesome group, and we pay our own way.2010, Roger Lee Scott, Letters from the Hills:
  • 'Or maybe,' he went on, speaking from his boulder as from a pulpit, 'you need to beware of the post-pridesome fall.'2014, Alison Leonard, Heavenly Lilies:

Forms of pridesome

comparativemore pridesome
superlativemost pridesome
alternative formpride-some

Origin of pridesome

From pride + -some.

Questions about pridesome

What does pridesome mean?
Pridesome means characterised or marked by pride.
How do you use pridesome in a sentence?
The Clodhoppers are a pridesome group, and we pay our own way.
What part of speech is pridesome?
Pridesome is an adjective.

Words near pridesome in the dictionary

  1. prider
  2. priderite
  3. priders
  4. prides
  5. Prides Crossing
  6. pridesome
  7. pridewear
  8. prideweed
  9. prideworthy
  10. Pridgen
  11. Pridgens

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