Synonyms of the word bragging


BRAGGINGBIG - BOAST - BOASTFUL - BOASTING - BRAG - BRAGGART - BRAGGY - COCK-A-HOOP - CROW - CROWING - GASCONADE - JACTITATION - PROUD - SELF-AGGRANDIZING - SELF-PRAISE - VAPORING

bragging

  • n. The act of one who brags.
  • v. present participle of brag.

big

  • adj. Of great size, large.
  • adj. (of an industry or other field) Thought to have undue influence.
  • adj. Popular.
  • adj. (informal) Adult.
  • adj. (informal) Fat.
  • adj. (informal) Important or significant.
  • adj. (informal, with on) Enthusiastic (about).
  • adj. (informal) Mature, conscientious, principled.
  • adj. (informal) Well-endowed, possessing large breasts in the case of a woman or a large penis in the case…
  • adj. (sometimes figuratively) Large with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce.
  • adj. (informal) Used as an intensifier, especially of negative-valence nouns.
  • adj. (of a city) populous.
  • adv. In a loud manner.
  • adv. In a boasting manner.
  • adv. In a large amount or to a large extent.
  • adv. On a large scale, expansively.
  • adv. Hard.
  • n. Someone or something that is large in stature.
  • n. An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name.
  • n. (as plural) The big leagues, big time.
  • v. (transitive) To praise or recommend.
  • v. (transitive, archaic or Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) to inhabit; occupy.
  • v. (reflexive, archaic or Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) to locate oneself.
  • v. (transitive, archaic or Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) to build; erect; fashion.
  • v. (intransitive, archaic or Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) to dwell; have a dwelling.
  • n. One or more kinds of barley, especially six-rowed barley.

boast

  • n. A brag, a loud positive appraisal of oneself.
  • n. (squash (sport)) A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.
  • v. (intransitive) To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.
  • v. (transitive) To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
  • v. (obsolete) To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
  • v. (squash (sport)) To play a boast shot.
  • v. (ergative) To possess something special.
  • v. (masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
  • v. (sculpting) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form…

boastful

  • adj. Tending to boast or brag.

boasting

  • v. present participle of boast.
  • n. The making of boasts.

brag

  • adj. First-rate.
  • adj. (archaic) Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited.
  • adv. (obsolete) proudly; boastfully.
  • n. A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification.
  • n. The thing which is boasted of.
  • n. (by ellipsis) The card game three card brag.
  • v. (intransitive) To boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, is able to do, or has done.
  • v. (transitive) To boast of.

braggart

  • n. someone who boasts.

braggy

  • adj. Prone to brag.

cock-a-hoop

  • adj. Exultant, very happy, triumphant.

crow

  • n. A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles; it…
  • n. A bar of iron with a beak, crook, or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar.
  • n. The cry of the rooster.
  • n. A gangplank (corvus) used by the Roman navy to board enemy ships.
  • n. (among butchers) The mesentery of an animal.
  • v. To make the shrill sound characteristic of a rooster; to make a sound in this manner, either in joy, gaiety,…
  • v. To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.
  • v. To utter a sound expressive of joy or pleasure.
  • v. (music) To test the reed of a double reed instrument by placing the reed alone in the mouth and blowing…

crowing

  • v. present participle of crow.
  • n. A cry of joy or pleasure.

gasconade

  • n. Boastful talk.
  • adj. (obsolete) Of or pertaining to exaggeration or extravagant boasting; bombastic.
  • v. (obsolete, derogatory) To talk boastfully.

jactitation

  • n. bragging or boasting, especially in a false manner to another's detriment.
  • n. (medicine) extreme restlessness; tossing and turning in bed.

proud

  • adj. Gratified; feeling honoured (by something); feeling satisfied or happy about a fact or event.
  • adj. Possessed of a due sense of what one is worth or deserves.
  • adj. (chiefly biblical) Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious.
  • adj. Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride.
  • adj. (obsolete) Brave, valiant; gallant.
  • adj. Standing out or raised; swollen.
  • adj. (obsolete) Excited by sexual desire; (of female animals) in heat.
  • adj. Happy, usually used with a sense of honour, as in "I'm so proud to have you in our town." But occasionally…

self-aggrandizing

  • adj. Boastful; intended to make oneself seem more important.

self-praise

  • n. The praise of oneself; self-applause.

vaporing

  • v. present participle of vapor.
  • n. Alternative form of vapouring.

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