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Synonyms for boast
boʊst
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Princeton's WordNet
boast, boasting, self-praise, jactitation(verb)
speaking of yourself in superlatives
Synonyms:
jactation, boasting, jactitation, self-praiseboast, 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, spattersport, 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
Wiktionary
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
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
Dictionary of English Synonymes
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 horseboast(v. a.)
Synonyms:
magnify (unduly), make much of, boast of, brag ofboast(v. a.)
boast(n.)
Synonyms:
vaunt, brag, gasconade, rodomontade, vaporing, bravado, boasting, blustering, swaggering, flourish of trumpets, much cry and little woolboast(n.)
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
PPDB, the paraphrase database
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?
It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.
The boast was overloaded because it was also carrying heavy music equipment, we rescued eight people and shall start a search for the nine.
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.
We have a lot of problems, there is nothing to boast about, and we must not let our guard down, because in general, as you and your specialists say, we have not passed the peak of the epidemic yet.
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.
Translations for boast
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- تباهىArabic
- самохвалство, хваля сеBulgarian
- chlubitCzech
- prale, pralDanish
- angeben, prahlenGerman
- aɖegbeƒoƒo, ƒo aɖegbeEwe
- ostentar, jactanSpanish
- lesottaa, omakehu, rehennellä, leuhkiaFinnish
- fanfaronnade, vantardise, se vanterFrench
- התרברב, התרברבות, התפארות, התפארHebrew
- डींगHindi
- sjálfshól, mont, gortIcelandic
- vantarsi, vanteriaItalian
- 自慢, 力むJapanese
- et gloriatusLatin
- lielīties, dižoties, plātītiesLatvian
- whakamānunuMāori
- bogen, opscheppenDutch
- skryt, skryteNorwegian
- szczycić się, chlubić się, przechwalać sięPolish
- ostentar, se exibirPortuguese
- anchaykachayQuechua
- хвастовство, хвастать, бахвалиться, хвастаться, хвалитьсяRussian
- chvastúňstvo, vychvaľovať sa, chvastať saSlovak
- skryta, skryt, skrävlaSwedish
- 誇Chinese
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