proud
adjective
Meaning
- adjectiveFeeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified.
Example:
We're proud of having won / to have won.
- adjectiveThat makes one feel proud (of something one did)
Example:
That was not the proudest thing I did but I can’t deny it.
- adjectivePossessed of a due sense of what one deserves or is worth.
Example:
I was too proud to apologise.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Five-letter puzzle facts
- How common
- Very common
- #234 of 8,600 five-letter words by how often they're used
- Can be a Play Five answer
- As a first guess
- Tests likely letters better than 40% of common five-letter words.
- Vowels: 2 · Different letters: 5 · Repeated letters: None