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self-sufficiency
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability to manage for oneself |
| Synonyms: | autonomy, independence, self-reliance, self-support, self-sustenance |
| Antonyms: | dependence |
| Main Entry: | pride |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | self-esteem |
| Synonyms: | amour-propre, delight, dignity, ego, ego trip, egoism, egotism, face, gratification, happiness, honor, joy, pleasure, pridefulness, repletion, satisfaction, self-admiration, self-confidence, self-glorification, self-love, self-regard, self-respect, self-satisfaction, self-sufficiency, self-trust, self-worth, sufficiency |
| Antonyms: | humility |
| Main Entry: | self-determination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | independence |
| Synonyms: | ability, aptitude, autarchy, autonomy, home rule, license, qualification, self-government, self-reliance, self-rule, self-sufficiency, separation, sovereignty |
| Main Entry: | self-regard |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pride |
| Synonyms: | amour-propre, delight, dignity, ego, ego trip, egoism, egotism, face, gratification, happiness, honor, joy, pleasure, pridefulness, repletion, satisfaction, self-admiration, self-confidence, self-esteem, self-glorification, self-love, self-respect, self-satisfaction, self-sufficiency, self-trust, self-worth, sufficiency |
| Main Entry: | self-reliance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | independence |
| Synonyms: | ability, aptitude, autarchy, autonomy, home rule, license, qualification, self-determination, self-government, self-rule, self-sufficiency, separation, sovereignty |
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| Main Entry: | independence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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adrift, alien, arbitrary, away from the point, away from the purpose, away from the question, away from the transaction, beside the mark, beside the point, beside the purpose, beside the question, beside the transaction, detached, disconnected, discordant, episodic, exotic, extraneous, far, foreign, foreign to the point, foreign to the purpose, foreign to the question, foreign to the transaction, heterogeneous, impertinent, inapplicable, inapposite, incidental, incommensurable, independent, insular, irrelative, irrelevant, irrespective, isolated, misplaced, multifarious, neither here nor there, not comparable, not pertinent, not to the purpose, out of the way, outlandish, parenthetical, quite another thing, remote, segregate, strange, unallied, unconformable, unconnected
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| Concept: | Pride. |
| Category: | 4. Extrinsic Affections |
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-nouns
dignity, self-respect, mens sibi conscia recti [Vergil]., pride; haughtiness; high notions, hauteur; vainglory, crest; arrogance (assumption)., proud man, highflier; fine gentleman, fine lady.
-verbs
be proud; put a good face on; look one in the face; stalk abroad, perk oneself up; think no small beer of oneself; presume, swagger, strut; rear one's head, lift up one's head, hold up one's head; hold one's head high, look big, take the wall, "bear like the Turk no rival near the throne" [Pope], carry with a high hand; ride the high horse, mount on one's high horse; set one's back up, bridle, toss the head; give oneself airs (assume); boast., pride oneself on; glory in, take a pride in; pique oneself, plume oneself, hug oneself; stand upon, be proud of; put a good face on; not hide one's light under a bushel, not put one's talent in a napkin; not think small beer of oneself (vanity).
-adjectives
dignified; stately; proud, proud-crested; lordly, baronial; lofty-minded; highsouled, high-minded, high-mettled, high-handed, high-plumed, high-flown, high-toned., haughty lofty, high, mighty, swollen, puffed up, flushed, blown; vainglorious; purse-proud, fine; proud as a peacock, proud as Lucifer; bloated with pride., supercilious, disdainful, bumptious, magisterial, imperious, high and mighty, overweening, consequential; arrogant; unblushing., stiff, stiff-necked; starch; perked stuck-up; in buckram, strait- laced; prim (affected)., on one's dignity, on one's high horses,on one's tight ropes, on one's high ropes; on stilts; en grand seigneur.
-adverbs
with head erect.
-phrases
odi profanum vulgus et arceo [Horace].
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| Antonyms: | humility |
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