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[bohst] 
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boast
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | brag |
| Synonyms: | advertise, aggrandize, attract attention, blow, blow one's own horn, blow smoke, bluster, bully, cock-a-doodle-doo, con, congratulate oneself, crow, exaggerate, exult, fake, flatter oneself, flaunt, flourish, gasconade, give a good account of oneself, gloat, glory, grandstand, hug oneself, jive, lay on thick, prate, preen, psych, puff, shoot*, shovel, show off, showboat, shuck, sling, sound off, strut, swagger, talk big, triumph, vapor |
| Antonyms: | be modest, deprecate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | boasting |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bragging |
| Synonyms: | braggadocio, fanfaronade, gasconade, rodomontade |
| Notes: | bragging is more obnoxious than boasting and is always exaggerated and crude |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Concept: | Boasting. |
| Category: | 4. Extrinsic Affections |
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-nouns
boasting; boast, vaunt, crake; pretense, pretensions; puff, puffery; flourish, fanfaronade; gasconade; blague, bluff, gas; highfalutin, highfaluting; hot air, spread-eagleism [U.S.]; brag, braggardism; bravado, bunkum, buncombe; jactitation, jactancy; bounce; venditation, vaporing, rodomontade, bombast, fine talking, tall talk, magniloquence, teratology, heroics; Chauvinism; exaggeration., vanity; vox et praeterea nihil; much cry and little wool, brutum fulmen., exultation; gloriation, glorification; flourish of trumpets; triumph., boaster; braggart, braggadocio; Gascon, fanfaron, pretender, soi-disant; blower [U.S.], bluffer, Foxy Quiller; blusterer; charlatan, jack-pudding, trumpeter; puppy (fop).
-verbs
boast, make a boast of, brag, vaunt, puff, show off, flourish, crake, crack, trumpet, strut, swagger, vapor; blague, blow, four-flush, bluff., exult, crow, crow over, neigh, chuckle, triumph; throw up one's cap; talk big, se faire valoir, faire claquer son fouet, take merit to oneself, make a merit of, sing Io triumphe, holloa before one is out of the wood.
-adjectives
boasting; magniloquent, flaming, Thrasonic, stilted, gasconading, braggart, boastful, pretentious, soi-disant; vainglorious (conceited); highfalutin, highfaluting; spread-eagle [U.S.]., elate, elated; jubilant, triumphant, exultant; in high feather; flushed, flushed with victory; cock-a-hoop; on stilts., vaunted
-adverbs
vauntingly
-phrases
"let the galled jade wince" [Hamlet]; facta non verba.
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| Main Entry: | bluster |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bullying, intimidation |
| Synonyms: | bluff, boasting, boisterousness, bombast, braggadocio, bragging, bravado, crowing, rabidity, rampancy, swagger, swaggering |
| Main Entry: | bluster |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bully, intimidate |
| Synonyms: | badger, boast, brag, brazen, browbeat, bulldoze, cow*, crow*, domineer, gloat, hector, rant, rave, ride the high horse, roar, roister, shoot off one's mouth, show off, storm, strut, swagger, swell, talk big, vapor, vaunt, yap |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | brag |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | talk boastingly |
| Synonyms: | blow one's own horn, bluster*, boast, crow*, exult, gasconade, gloat, grandstand, hotdog, jive, mouth*, pat oneself on the back, prate, puff, rodomontade, showboat, shuck, swagger, vaunt |
| Antonyms: | be modest, be quiet, deprecate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bravado |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boastfulness |
| Synonyms: | blowing, bluff, bluster, boasting, bombast, braggadocio, bragging, bullying, crowing, fancy talk, fanfaronade, fuming, gasconade, grandiosity, guts*, hot air, pomposity, pretension, raging, railing, rant, selfglorification, storming, swaggering, swelling, talk, tall talk |
| Antonyms: | cowardice, fear, fearfulness, modesty, restraint |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | crow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | brag, exult |
| Synonyms: | babble, blow, bluster, boast, cackle, caw, cock-a-doodle-doo, cry, flourish, gas, gloat, glory in, gurgle, jubilate, mouth, prate, puff, rodomontade, squawk, strut, swagger, triumph, vaunt, whoop |
| Main Entry: | display |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | show for public viewing, effect |
| Synonyms: | advertise, arrange, bare, betray, boast, brandish, bring to view, demonstrate, disclose, emblazon, evidence, evince, exhibit, expand, expose, extend, feature, flash, flaunt, flourish, glaze, grandstand, illustrate, impart, lay bare, lay out, make clear, make known, manifest, model, open, open out, parade, perform, present, promote, promulgate, publish, represent, reveal, set out, show off, showcase, sport, spread out, stretch out, trot out, uncover, unfold, unfurl, unmask, unroll, unveil, vamp |
| Antonyms: | conceal, cover, hide, secrete, withhold |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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