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Antonyms for boastingboast·ing
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
boasting
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.
Antonyms:
diffidence, modesty, quietness, reserve, retirement, shrinking, timidity, unobtrusivenessSynonyms:
boast, display, flourish, ostentation, pageant, pageantry, parade, pomp, pomposity, pompousness, show, vaunt, vaunting
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Princeton's WordNet
boast, boasting, self-praise, jactitationnoun
speaking of yourself in superlatives
Synonyms:
jactation, jactitation, self-praise, boast
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
boastingnoun
Antonyms:
disparagement, depreciationSynonyms:
bragging, gasconade, vaporing, fanfaronade, rodomontade, blague, bravado, blustering, jactitation, vaunting
How to use boasting in a sentence?
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it we respect that of others, without fearing it.
I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.
James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology:
The security theater we are witnessing in our election system boasting the illusion of security via ‘clunky as heck’ and air gap defense will do nothing against the real and sophisticated adversarial landscape that is zeroing in on our democracy
Several large LTO producers have been boasting of achieving large reductions in production costs in recent weeks. At the same time, producer hedging has reportedly gone steeply up, as companies took advantage of the rally to lock in profits, it would thus be premature to suggest that OPEC has won the battle for market share. The battle, rather, has just started.
There are a lot of candidates out there feeling their oats and boasting,' I'm running no matter what. I don't care what Donald Trump says.' Anyone who says that is lying, that's an idiotic statement for someone to make who's actually thinking about running.
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#2268 | reserve | |
#3308 | retirement | |
#21238 | shrinking | |
#30842 | boasting | |
#33716 | modesty | |
#60838 | timidity | |
#68540 | quietness | |
#174555 | diffidence |
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