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Synonyms for boast

27 synonyms
5 antonyms
3 meanings

verb
noun

Most common

brag flaunt tout bluster feature sport

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

1. Brag

brag, flaunt, tout, bluster, talk big informal, crow, gasconade, vaunt, swagger, bravado, gas, vapor US, vapour UK, swash, blow dated, flourish dated, bounce slang dated, crack dated, rodomontade dated

2. Feature

Other

Noun

1. Self-praise

self-praise, jactitation

Other

glory, quack, plume

Antonyms

deprecate, belittle, disparage

All antonyms of boast →

Definitions

v. 1
To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.
v. 2
[with about or of] To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
n. 1
A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself.

Related words

Word family: boaster boastful boastfully

Forms

Plural: boasts → self-praises, jactitations, glories, quacks…
Past participle: boasted
e.g. boasted → bragged, flaunted, touted, blustered…

Example sentences

brag I cannot brag about my team. It always loses games.
tout He didn't miss the opportunity to tout his bona fides.
flaunt Lawrence didn't flaunt his wealth.

Popularity over time

Word	1850 → 2019	Trend
boast		steady
brag		rising
tout		rising
flaunt		rising
gasconade		steady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters: gas¹
4 letters: blow¹, crow¹, brag¹, tout¹
5 letters: sport¹, crack¹, glory², vapor², plume¹, quack¹, swash, vaunt
6 letters: bounce¹, vapour, flaunt¹
7 letters: feature², triumph², swagger², bravado³, bluster²
8 letters: flourish²
9 letters: gasconade
11 letters: rodomontade, jactitation

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (glory² = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français: se vanter