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

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1. vanglorious

   idiomatic expressions,

   Submitted by misbah.batool131 on October 5, 2022  

How to use boastful in a sentence?

1. 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.

2. Bridget McKay:

   I remember when I was a little girl, all the hype around him, he was so boastful and confident about who he was. He made me feel that it was OK to be myself, that I didn't have to be anyone else.

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

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