Delight
Pride
Pride noun - A reasonable or justifiable sense of one's worth or importance.
Delight and pride are semantically related in pleasure topic. Sometimes you can use "Delight" instead a noun "Pride", if it concerns topics such as satisfaction, self-esteem, source of satisfaction.
Nearby Words: prided, priding
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| pure | pure delight | pure pride |
| particular | particular delight | particular pride |
| certain | certain delight | certain pride |
| considerable | considerable delight | considerable pride |
| Other adjectives: true, genuine, sheer, obvious, powerful, real, gleeful, extreme, great, intense, huge, perverse, apparent, immense. | ||
Both words in one sentence
- In the manga and Brotherhood, he takes delight and pride in the fact that he ignited the Ishbalan War by shooting a small child while in the guise of a moderate Amestrian officer — who ended up getting court martialed for his actions.
Source: Draco In Leather Pants / Anime -
A good assassin takes pride in a clean kill, but Teatime takes delight in a messy one.
Source: Discworld / Hogfather -
They don't seem to delight in suffering, but do take pride in the fact that they may be eating something right off the face of the earth.
Source: Exotic Entree
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