Synonyms for boast
boʊst

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1. boast, boasting, self-praise, jactitation(verb)

   speaking of yourself in superlatives

   Synonyms:
   jactation, boasting, jactitation, self-praise

2. boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconade(verb)

   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, boast(verb)

   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. boast(verb)

   Synonyms:
   brag

2. boast(verb)

   to brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself

   Synonyms:
   brag

3. boast(verb)

   To play a boast shot

   Synonyms:
   brag

4. boast(verb)

   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(v. n.)

   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. boast(v. a.)

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

3. boast(v. a.)

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

4. boast(n.)

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

5. boast(n.)

   Synonyms:
   cause of pride or laudable exultation

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1. boast(v)

   Synonyms:
   brag, vaunt, vapor, gasconade

   Antonyms:
   belittle, decry, disparage

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1. List of paraphrases for "boast":

   brag

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1. 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.

2. RAMANA PEMMARAJU:

   You boast of what you already have yet feel insecure and jealous when you find in same in others. That's how fragile you're, Grow Up!

3. Hillary Clinton:

   Oh I know it well, love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

4. Kim Jeong-ki:

   RT-PCR tests boast an accuracy of 95%. This means that there still can be 2-5% of those cases that are detected false negative or false positive cases.

5. Mehmet Murat ildan:

   Do not boast because you have beliefs; don’t forget that hundreds of absurd beliefs in the history are totally disappeared!

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