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Prideful vs Vainglorious - What's the difference?

prideful | vainglorious |

As adjectives the difference between prideful and vainglorious

is that prideful is full of pride; haughty, arrogant while vainglorious is with excessive vanity or unwarranted pride.

prideful

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Full of pride; haughty, arrogant.
  • *2000 , (Goerge RR Martin), A Storm of Swords , Bantam 2011, p. 475:
  • *:‘The man is ill-tempered, envious, and above all prideful .’

    • Synonyms

    *arrogant, disdainful, haughty

    vainglorious

    English

    From (etyl) vain glorios, from (etyl)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • With excessive vanity or unwarranted pride.

    • Related terms

    * vainglory