boastful
Adjective: - Exhibiting self-importance; tending to boast: Describes a person, their manner, or their speech that shows excessive pride in oneself or one's achievements, often by talking about them in an exaggerated or arrogant way. - Characterized by big talk: Involving or full of loud, excessive, or empty claims about one's abilities, possessions, or successes.
The word "boastful" is used to describe someone's character, behavior, or speech. It is a negative trait, implying arrogance and a lack of modesty. - It typically functions as an adjective before a noun (e.g., a boastful person) or after a linking verb (e.g., He is boastful). - It describes a habitual tendency, not just a single instance of boasting.
- Adjective:
- He was so boastful about his promotion that it annoyed his colleagues.
- Her boastful claims about her wealth turned out to be completely false.
- I find his boastful attitude very off-putting.
- "to be boastful of/about something": To talk with excessive pride about a specific thing.
- He is always boastful about his children's accomplishments.
- Used in comparative and superlative forms: "more boastful," "the most boastful."
- Of all the candidates, she was the most boastful.
- Boastfully (adverb): In a boastful manner.
- He spoke boastfully of his past victories.
- Boastfulness (noun): The quality of being boastful.
- His constant boastfulness made him few friends.
- Bragging: Talking with too much pride about something.
- Conceited: Excessively proud of oneself; vain.
- Vainglorious: Having or showing excessive vanity or pride.
- Swaggering: Behaving in a very confident and arrogant or self-important way.
- Modest: Unassuming in the estimation of one's abilities or achievements.
- Humble: Having or showing a modest or low estimate of one's own importance.
- Self-effacing: Not claiming attention for oneself; retiring and modest.
- Full of hot air: (Idiom) Talking a lot, especially in a boastful or empty way.
- Don't listen to him; he's just full of hot air.
- Blow one's own trumpet/horn: (Idiom) To boast about one's own achievements.
- She's never shy about blowing her own trumpet.
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exhibiting self-importance
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big talk
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