Boast

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The American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To glorify oneself in speech; talk in a self-admiring way.
  • v. To speak of with excessive pride.
  • v. To possess or own (a desirable feature): "[the] capital of a region in the southeast that boasts bountiful coal fieldsā€ ( US Air).
  • v. To contain; have.
  • n. The act or an instance of bragging.
  • n. A source of pride.
  • v. To shape or form (stone) roughly with a broad chisel.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A brag, a loud positive appraisal of oneself.
  • n. ) A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.
  • v. to brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself
  • v. ) To play a boast shot
  • v. To possess something special.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb-intransitive. To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of one's self or of things belonging to one's self.
  • verb-intransitive. To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
  • v. To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
  • v. To display vaingloriously.
  • v. To possess or have.
  • v. To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
  • v. To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.
  • n. Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging.
  • n. The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, -- sometimes of laudable pride or exultation.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To threaten; utter a threat.
  • To brag; vaunt; speak vaingloriously or exaggeratedly, as of one's own worth, property, deeds, etc.
  • To glory or exult on account (of); speak with laudable pride.
  • To be possessed, as of something remarkable or admirable: often used jocosely.
  • Synonyms To bluster (about), vapor, crow (about a thing, or over a person), swell, talk big, put on airs.
  • To brag of; speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation: as, to boast what arms can do.
  • To glory or exult in possessing; have as a source of pride: often in a jocose sense: as, the village boasts a public pump.
  • To magnify or exalt; make over-confident; vaunt: with a reflexive pronoun.
  • n. Clamor; outcry.
  • n. Threatening; menace.
  • n. Brag; vaunting; language expressive of ostentation, pride, or vanity.
  • n. A cause of boasting; occasion of pride, vanity, or laudable exultation: as, Shakspere, the boast of English literature.
  • n. Synonyms Vaunt, brag. See boasting.
  • In masonry, to dress off the surface of a stone with a broad chisel and mallet.
  • In sculpture, to reduce ornaments or other work to their general contour or form, preparatory to working out the details.
  • n. In tennis, a stroke by which the ball is driven against the wall of a court at an acute angle. The rubbing against the wall makes the ball spin.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. show off
  • v. wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner
  • n. speaking of yourself in superlatives
  • Verb Form
    boasted    boastfulness    boasting    boasts   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    have    feature   
    Form
    boastfully    outboast    boastful   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    brag    bluster    talk big    vapor    crow    glory    exult    extol    vaunt    bounce   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Post    coast    diagnosed    engrossed    ghost    grossed    host    most    ost    post   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    boastings    taunt    bravado    imaginings    exultation    pretension    brag    mockery    prestige    refrain