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Synonyms for boast
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
boast
Ostentation is an ambitious showing forth of whatever is thought adapted to win admiration or praise; ostentation may be without words; as, the ostentation of wealth in fine residences, rich clothing, costly equipage, or the like; when in words, ostentation is rather in manner than in direct statement; as, the ostentation of learning. Boasting is in direct statement, and is louder and more vulgar than ostentation. There may be great display or show with little substance; ostentation suggests something substantial to be shown. Pageant, pageantry, parade, and pomp refer principally to affairs of arms or state; as, a royal pageant; a military parade. Pomp is some material demonstration of wealth and power, as in grand and stately ceremonial, rich furnishings, processions, etc., considered as worthy of the person or occasion in whose behalf it is manifested; pomp is the noble side of that which as ostentation is considered as arrogant and vain. Pageant and pageantry are inferior to pomp, denoting spectacular display designed to impress the public mind, and since the multitude is largely ignorant and thoughtless, the words pageant and pageantry have a suggestion of the transient and unsubstantial. Parade (Latin paro, prepare) is an exhibition as of troops in camp going through the evolutions that are to be used in battle, and suggests a lack of earnestness and direct or immediate occasion or demand; hence, in the more general sense, a parade is an uncalled for exhibition, and so used is a more disparaging word than ostentation; ostentation may spring merely from undue self-gratulation, parade implies a desire to impress others with a sense of one's abilities or resources, and is always offensive and somewhat contemptible; as, a parade of wealth or learning. Pomposity and pompousness are the affectation of pomp.
Synonyms:
boasting, display, flourish, ostentation, pageant, pageantry, parade, pomp, pomposity, pompousness, show, vaunt, vauntingAntonyms:
diffidence, modesty, quietness, reserve, retirement, shrinking, timidity, unobtrusiveness
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Princeton's WordNet
boast, boasting, self-praise, jactitationverb
speaking of yourself in superlatives
Synonyms:
jactation, boasting, jactitation, self-praiseboast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconadeverb
show off
Synonyms:
swash, gasconade, botch, splatter, bungle, muck up, splash, mishandle, bumble, botch up, brag, blow, burn out, flub, suck, waste, fumble, shove off, fellate, muff, ball up, sport, bollocks, mess up, feature, louse up, bollocks up, float, gas, bollix, plash, vaunt, screw up, spoil, tout, shoot a line, go down on, swagger, foul up, fluff, blow out, drift, bobble, bluster, be adrift, shove along, bollix up, squander, splosh, bodge, spattersport, feature, boastverb
wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner
"she was sporting a new hat"
Synonyms:
have, feature, swash, gas, run around, lark, disport, cavort, frisk, vaunt, lark about, romp, gasconade, skylark, sport, frolic, tout, bluster, blow, gambol, brag, rollick, shoot a line
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
boastverb
Synonyms:
brag, vaunt, gasconade, BLUSTER, crow, crack, flourish, exalt one's self, magnify one's self, give one's self airs, TALK BIG, ride a high horseboastverb
Synonyms:
magnify (unduly), make much of, boast of, brag ofboastverb
boastnoun
Synonyms:
vaunt, brag, gasconade, rodomontade, vaporing, bravado, boasting, blustering, swaggering, flourish of trumpets, much cry and little woolboastnoun
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
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List of paraphrases for "boast":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#26 | have | |
#268 | show | |
#750 | display | |
#1119 | gas | |
#1259 | feature | |
#1291 | sport | |
#1980 | waste | |
#2540 | blow | |
#3373 | suck | |
#5031 | glory | |
#6803 | float | |
#6903 | parade | |
#9500 | triumph | |
#11503 | splash | |
#11779 | drift | |
#12053 | vapor | |
#16522 | swell | |
#17634 | tout | |
#21030 | pageant | |
#21436 | spoil | |
#23203 | boast | |
#23713 | flourish | |
#26730 | lark | |
#26944 | bobble | |
#28828 | bumble | |
#29630 | fluff | |
#30842 | boasting | |
#30892 | fumble | |
#33879 | brag | |
#33911 | muff | |
#37211 | romp | |
#44441 | skylark | |
#49571 | pomp | |
#53610 | bollocks | |
#53814 | splatter | |
#54297 | frolic | |
#57008 | swash | |
#63134 | bungle | |
#64843 | swagger | |
#78272 | frisk | |
#80961 | squander | |
#84144 | pageantry | |
#88167 | bluster | |
#102863 | spatter | |
#104177 | botch | |
#109264 | gasconade | |
#118932 | ostentation | |
#164845 | pomposity | |
#172788 | gambol | |
#207872 | cavort | |
#220019 | flub | |
#231784 | bodge | |
#281038 | vaunt | |
#315643 | mishandle |
How to use boast in a sentence?
We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
There is a negative proof of the value of Latin No one seems to boast of not knowing it.
When a man respects and is proud of his partner, just as Clooney mentioned in his speech, he cannot help but vocalize this happiness, he doesn't do this to boast or brag; he sincerely just wants to respect her as his equal and let others know what's important to him now.The fact that Amal is young, smart, and a humanitarian really speaks to him on levels that go far deeper than what he has had with other women in the past.
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop:
They are criminal thugs who have been carrying out brutal terrorist attacks, putting people's lives in danger, they boast of the brutality and violence they have been meting out to people, they boast of having sexual slaves.
The Fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For when they boast extravagantly of the Spirit, the tendency is always to bury the Word of God so they may make room for their own falsehoods.
Translations for boast
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- تباهىArabic
- хваля се, самохвалствоBulgarian
- chlubitCzech
- prale, pralDanish
- angeben, prahlenGerman
- ƒo aɖegbe, aɖegbeƒoƒoEwe
- jactan, ostentarSpanish
- omakehu, leuhkia, rehennellä, lesottaaFinnish
- vantardise, fanfaronnade, se vanterFrench
- התרברב, התפאר, התפארות, התרברבותHebrew
- डींगHindi
- gort, sjálfshól, montIcelandic
- vanteria, vantarsiItalian
- 自慢, 力むJapanese
- ಹೆಗ್ಗಳಿಕೆKannada
- et gloriatusLatin
- lielīties, plātīties, dižotiesLatvian
- whakamānunuMāori
- bogen, opscheppenDutch
- skryt, skryteNorwegian
- szczycić się, przechwalać się, chlubić sięPolish
- se exibir, ostentarPortuguese
- anchaykachayQuechua
- хвалиться, хвастовство, хвастаться, бахвалиться, хвастатьRussian
- chvastať sa, chvastúňstvo, vychvaľovať saSlovak
- skrävla, skryt, skrytaSwedish
- 誇Chinese
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