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. 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. 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.

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. 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.