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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bigmouth, chatterer |
| Synonyms: | bag of wind, big talker, blabberer, blowhard, boaster, braggart, bragger, gasbag, gascon, jabberer, know-it-all, motor-mouth |
| Main Entry: | blabbermouth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | someone who talks too much |
| Synonyms: | babblemouth, babbler, bag of wind, bigmouth, blabber, blabberer, blowhard, chatterbox, chatterer, gabber, gasbag, gossiper, gossipmonger, jabberer, loudmouth, motor-mouth, squealer, tattletale, windbag, yapper |
| Main Entry: | boastful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bragging |
| Synonyms: | arrogant, big, big-headed, bombastic, cocky, conceited, crowing, egotistic, egotistical, exultant, full of hot air, hifalutin, hot stuff, know-it-all, loudmouth, on ego trip, pompous, pretentious, puffed-up, self-aggrandizing, self-applauding, smart-alecky, snooty, strutting, stuck-up, swaggering, swanky, swollen-headed, too big for one's britches, vainglorious, vaunting, windbag |
| Antonyms: | deprecating, modest |
| Main Entry: | bombastic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pompous, grandiloquent |
| Synonyms: | aureate, balderdash, big-talking, declamatory, euphuistic, flowery, full of hot air, fustian, grandiose, high-flown, highfalutin, histrionic, inflated, loudmouthed, magniloquent, orotund, ostentatious, overblown, ranting, rhapsodic, rhetorical, sonorous, stuffed shirt, swollen, tumid, turgid, verbose, windbag, windy, wordy |
| Antonyms: | humble, quiet, reserved, restrained |
| Main Entry: | braggart |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who talks boastingly |
| Synonyms: | bag of wind, big talker, big-timer, bigmouth, blatherskite, blowhard, blusterer, boaster, brag, braggadocio, bragger, egotist, exhibitionist, gasbag, gascon, grandstander, hotshot, know-it-all, peacock, ranter, raver, show-off, strutter, swaggerer, swashbuckler, swelled head, trumpeter, windbag |
| Main Entry: | conceited |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | egotistical |
| Synonyms: | arrogant, big talking, bigheaded, cocky, conceity, full of hot air, gall, ham, hot stuff, immodest, know-it-all, loudmouth, narcissistic, overweening, phony, puffed up, self-important, smart-alecky, snotty, stuck up, swollen-headed, vain, vainglorious, windbag |
| Antonyms: | diffident, humble, meek, modest, self-conscious, shy, timid, unself-confident |
| Main Entry: | effusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gushing, profuse |
| Synonyms: | all jaw, big mouthed, demonstrative, ebullient, enthusiastic, expansive, extravagant, exuberant, free-flowing, fulsome, gabby, gushy, lavish, outpouring, overflowing, prolix, talkative, unconstrained, unreserved, unrestrained, verbose, windbag, windy, wordy |
| Main Entry: | grandiloquent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pretentious, flowery (communication) |
| Synonyms: | aureate, big-talking, bombastic, declamatory, euphistic, fustian, high-flown, histrionic, inflated, magniloquent, oratorical, orotund, overblown, pompous, purple*, rhetorical, sonorous, swollen, tall-talking, verbose, windbag, windy |
| Notes: | grandiloquent means lofty in style, pompous, or bombastic; magniloquent means lofty and extravagant in speech |
| Antonyms: | plain, simple, unadorned, unpretentious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | know-it-all |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | one who claims full knowledge |
| Synonyms: | braggart, brain, brain*, intellectual, smart aleck, smart aleck, smart-ass, smarty-pants, walking encyclopedia, windbag, wise guy, wiseacre |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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