Synonyms for boast
boʊstboast

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1. boastverb

   Synonyms:
   brag

2. boastverb

   to brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself

   Synonyms:
   brag

3. boastverb

   To play a boast shot

   Synonyms:
   brag

4. boastverb

   To possess something special.

   The hotel boasts one of the best views of the sea.

   Synonyms:
   brag

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1. 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, vaunting

   Antonyms:
   diffidence, modesty, quietness, reserve, retirement, shrinking, timidity, unobtrusiveness

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1. boast

   Synonyms:
   vaunt, brag, swagger, swell, bluster, vapor, triumph, glory

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1. boast, boasting, self-praise, jactitationverb

   speaking of yourself in superlatives

   Synonyms:
   jactation, boasting, jactitation, self-praise

2. boast, 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, spatter

3. sport, 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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1. 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 horse

2. boastverb

   Synonyms:
   magnify (unduly), make much of, boast of, brag of

3. boastverb

   Synonyms:
   (sculp.) shape roughly (as a block of marble)

4. boastnoun

   Synonyms:
   vaunt, brag, gasconade, rodomontade, vaporing, bravado, boasting, blustering, swaggering, flourish of trumpets, much cry and little wool

5. boastnoun

   Synonyms:
   cause of pride or laudable exultation

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1. boastverb

   Synonyms:
   brag, vaunt, vapor, gasconade

   Antonyms:
   belittle, decry, disparage

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1. List of paraphrases for "boast":

   brag

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How to use boast in a sentence?

1. Dennis Waterman:

   I'm so grateful to have been a friend of this wonderful man. We worked together for many years and my boast is that we laughed all day every day.

2. Alberto Vellos:

   The economy has taken a hit under this administration, and while they boast about the infrastructure development, the people are saying we can't eat concrete.

3. Matt Gold:

   Both the President's timing of certain actions and hints that the President has made expressly have raised fears that he's offering the Chinese a compromise of our national security enforcement in exchange for the kinds of concessions that he can boast about on the campaign trail, if we put legitimate enforcement of our national security laws on the table in trade negotiation, we are inviting our adversaries to demand we drop national security enforcement at future trade negotiation tables.

4. John Calvin:

   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.

5. Henry Brougham:

   It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence.