Synonyms for boastful
ˈboʊst fəlboast·ful

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1. boastful, braggart(a), bragging(a), braggy, big, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandizing, self-aggrandisingadjective

   exhibiting self-importance

   "big talk"

   Antonyms:
   humble

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1. boastfuladjective

   Synonyms:
   boasting, vaunting, bragging, vaporing, blustering, exulting, triumphant, cock-a-hoop

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1. boastfuladjective

   Synonyms:
   bragging, vaunting, vainglorious, thrasonical, cockahoop, braggart, jactitatious

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How to use boastful in a sentence?

1. Jared Allen:

   You tell people that and they think that's very boastful, very aggressive. But setting mediocre goals is setting yourself up for mediocrity, i always like to shoot for the moon and see what happens.

2. Little Rock:

   Civilization culminates in the power-press. It is the grand total of the difference between a boastful United Statian and a beastly Hottentot, —between Yankee Doodle and Timbucktoodle

3. Melody Wilding:

   If you’re not normally boastful, then people are going to be much more inclined to say, ‘Wow, he or she just really wants to share,’ rather than think you’re rubbing it in their faces.

4. Charles Haddon Spurgeon:

   It will be an ill day when our brethren take to bragging and boasting and call it 'testimony to the victorious Christian life.' We trust that holiness will be more than ever the aim of believers, but not the boastful holiness which has deluded some of the excellent of the earth into vain glory, and under which their firmest friends shudder for them.

5. Bible, Paul, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7:

   Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.