boastful
Syllables: boast·ful/ˈbəʊstfʊl/
boastful adjective: tending to boast or brag.
Adjective
boastful (comparative more boastful, superlative most boastful)
- Tending to boast or brag.
- He wrote a boastful autobiography, recording all his great deeds.
- It makes one's blood boil, yet heart tremble, to think that we Englishmen and our American descendants, with their boastful cry of liberty, have been and are so guilty1839, Robert FitzRoy, Phillip Parker King, Charles Darwin, Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the Years 1826 and 1836, […], volume (please specify...
- Synonyms:
- bragging, crowing, gasconade, glorious, spread-eagle, swaggering, thrasonic, thrasonical, vaunting
boastful meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Malayalam
boastful in Tamil
- தற்புகழ்ச்சியுடைய, தற்பெருமை கூறிக் கொள்கிற
boastful in Marathi
- boastful, bombastic, or exaggerated speech or claims; empty bravado
- वल्गना valganā
boastful in Urdu
- خردماغ
boastful in Malayalam
- boastful, proud, haughty, conceited
- തണ്ടൻ taṇṭaṉ
More languagesFewer languages
- boastful in Gujarati
- વાઘમારુ vāghmāru
- boastful in Tagalog
- hambog, mahangin, pasikat
Synonyms of boastful
Antonyms
Forms of boastful
| comparative | more boastful |
|---|---|
| superlative | most boastful |
| alternative form (archaic) | boastfull |
Origin of boastful
From Middle English bostful, equivalent to boast + -ful.
Words formed from boastful
Questions about boastful
- What does boastful mean?
- Boastful means tending to boast or brag.
- What is boastful in Tamil?
- Boastful in Tamil is தற்புகழ்ச்சியுடைய, தற்பெருமை கூறிக் கொள்கிற. See Boastful meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is boastful?
- Boastful is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce boastful?
- Boastful is pronounced /ˈbəʊstfʊl/.
Words near boastful in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: boastful (page history and authors); boastful (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); वल्गना (Marathi) (page history and authors); boastful (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); തണ്ടൻ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); વાઘમારુ (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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