Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Free from pride.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Without pride.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Without pride; humble.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

pride +‎ -less

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word prideless.

Examples

  • And I think we're both kind of prideless about who gets the punchline.

    Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. Capone 2009

  • Lucifer and as prideless, holds a perpetual, almost morbid, attraction for the thinker.

    CHAPTER VIII 2010

  • She would not have been surprised had she been taken into the dancer's cabin and encountered on common ground; nor surprised had she been taken in and flaunted in prideless arrogance.

    Jack London Play:The Scorn of Women 2010

  • So broken is he, though he still does his work, that he is prideless and shameless.

    CHAPTER XXXIX 2010

  • She would not have been surprised had she been taken into the dancer's cabin and encountered on common ground; nor surprised had she been taken in and flaunted in prideless arrogance.

    THE SCORN OF WOMEN 2010

  • We were in the rags of beggary, prideless in the dust, and yet I was laughing heartily at some mumbled merry quip of the Lady Om when a shadow fell upon us.

    Chapter 15 2010

  • The rickety house shook to a heavy, prideless tread, and through the inner door came Sarah, middle-aged, lop-breasted, hair-tousled, her face lined with care and fat petulance.

    CHAPTER I 2010

  • In any event, The Insufferables, without Rob's leadership and bowling skills, were soon trudging home, to reconstruct their camp, foodless, prideless, brainless, but at least they still have Bulbous and Voldepussy.

    Tallulah Morehead: Survivor: Heroes vs Villains : Shudder Island 2010

  • In any event, The Insufferables, without Rob's leadership and bowling skills, were soon trudging home, to reconstruct their camp, foodless, prideless, brainless, but at least they still have Bulbous and Voldepussy.

    Survivor: Heroes vs Villains : Shudder Island 2010

  • I love him, but he seems just as prideless as the Democrats he criticizes.

    Philocrites: Harvey Cox: James Luther Adams, Evangelical? 2007

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.