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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1. 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.

2. Representative Adam Schiff:

   Given North Korea's often boastful claims in the past, its assertion that it has mastered the science necessary for a thermonuclear explosion cannot be accepted uncritically.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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