English Synonyms and Antonyms

expenses; household expenses.
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PRIDE.
Synonyms:
arrogance, ostentation, self-exaltation, assumption, presumption, self-respect, conceit, reserve,
superciliousness, disdain, self-complacency, vainglory, haughtiness, self-conceit, vanity. insolence,
self-esteem,
Haughtiness thinks highly of itself and poorly of others. Arrogance claims much for itself and concedes little
to others. Pride is an absorbing sense of one's own greatness; haughtiness feels one's own superiority to
others; disdain sees contemptuously the inferiority of others to oneself. Presumption claims place or privilege
above one's right; pride deems nothing too high. Insolence is open and rude expression of contempt and
hostility, generally from an inferior to a superior, as from a servant to a master or mistress. In the presence of
superiors overweening pride manifests itself in presumption or insolence; in the presence of inferiors, or those
supposed to be inferior, pride manifests itself by arrogance, disdain, haughtiness, superciliousness, or in
either case often by cold reserve. (See RESERVE under MODESTY.) Pride is too self-satisfied to care for
praise; vanity intensely craves admiration and applause. Superciliousness, as if by the uplifted eyebrow, as its
etymology suggests (L. supercilium, eyebrow, from super, over and cilium, eyelid), silently manifests mingled
haughtiness and disdain. Assumption quietly takes for granted superiority and privilege which others would be
slow to concede. Conceit and vanity are associated with weakness, pride with strength. Conceit may be
founded upon nothing; pride is founded upon something that one is, or has, or has done; vanity, too, is
commonly founded on something real, tho far slighter than would afford foundation for pride. Vanity is eager
for admiration and praise, is elated if they are rendered, and pained if they are withheld, and seeks them; pride
could never solicit admiration or praise. Conceit is somewhat stronger than self-conceit. Self-conceit is
ridiculous; conceit is offensive. Self-respect is a thoroughly worthy feeling; self-esteem is a more generous
estimate of one's own character and abilities than the rest of the world are ready to allow. Vainglory is more
pompous and boastful than vanity. Compare EGOTISM; OSTENTATION.
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Antonyms:
humility, meekness, modesty, self-abasement, self-distrust. lowliness,
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PRIMEVAL.
Synonyms:
aboriginal, indigenous, patriarchal, primitive, ancient, native, primal, primordial, autochthonic, old, primary,
pristine, immemorial, original, prime, uncreated.
Aboriginal (L. ab, from, origo, origin) signifies pertaining to the aborigines or earliest known inhabitants of a
country in the widest sense, including not merely human beings but inferior animals and plants as well.
Autochthonic (Gr. autos, self, and chth[=o]n, earth) signifies sprung from the earth, especially from the soil of
one's native land. Primeval (L. primum, first, and ævum, age), signifies strictly belonging to the first ages,
earliest in time, but often only the earliest of which man knows or conceives, immemorial. Aboriginal,
autochthonic, and primeval combine the meanings of ancient and original; aboriginal inhabitants,
autochthonic races, primeval forests. Prime and primary may signify either first in time, or more frequently
first in importance; primary has also the sense of elementary or preparatory; we speak of a prime minister, a