| Main Entry: | expediency/expedience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appropriateness; worth |
Synonyms: |
advantage, advantageousness, advisability, appositeness, aptness, benefit, convenience, desirability, effectiveness, efficiency, fitness, helpfulness, judiciousness, meetness, opportunism, opportunity, order, policy, practicality, pragmatism, profitability, profitableness, properness, propitiousness, propriety, prudence, rightness, suitability, usefulness, utilitarianism, utility |
Antonyms: |
disadvantage, inappropriateness |
| Main Entry: | pride |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | arrogance, self-importance |
Synonyms: |
airs, assumption, big-headedness, cockiness, conceit, condescension, contumely, disdain, disdainfulness, egoism, egotism, haughtiness, hauteur, hubris, huff, immodesty, insolence, loftiness, narcissism, overconfidence, patronage, pragmatism, presumption, pretension, pretentiousness, proud flesh, self-exaltation, self-love, smugness, snobbery, superbity, superciliousness, swagger, swelled head, vainglory, vanity |
Antonyms: |
humility, modesty, shyness, timidity |
| Main Entry: | rule of thumb |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rule that it is wise to follow |
Synonyms: |
criterion, hit and miss, pragmatism, trial and error, unwritten rule |
| Main Entry: | materialism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | desire for possessions |
Synonyms: |
heterodoxy, physicism, pragmatism, utilitarianism |
Antonyms: |
spiritualism |
| Concept: | Pride. |
| Category: | 4. Extrinsic Affections |
Synonyms: |
-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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