Synonyms for boastful
- adjective
All synonyms
Adjective
1. Braggart
braggart, pompous, arrogant, proud, vainglorious, self-aggrandizing, haughty, swaggering, ostentatious, vain, big, cock-a-hoop, magniloquent, braggy, conceited, egotistical, pretentious, supercilious, overweening, glorious dated
Other
immodest, vaunting, thrasonical, thrasonic dated
Definitions
- adj. 1
Tending to boast or brag.
He wrote a boastful autobiography, recording all his great deeds.
Related words
- Is a kind of
- arrogant proud triumphant vain
Example sentences
- pompous It's much too pompous for such a trivial thing.
- braggart If I were you, I wouldn't take Tom seriously. He is a big braggart.
- immodest I don't care if you think these clothes are immodest.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| boastful | rising | |
| pompous | rising | |
| braggart | steady | |
| vainglorious | rising | |
| immodest | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- big1
- 4 letters
- vain1
- 5 letters
- proud1
- 6 letters
- braggy
- 7 letters
- pompous2, haughty2
- 8 letters
- glorious3, arrogant3, immodest, braggart, vaunting
- 9 letters
- conceited3, thrasonic
- 10 letters
- swaggering3
- 11 letters
- pretentious3, egotistical5, overweening, thrasonical
- 12 letters
- ostentatious4, vainglorious, supercilious5, magniloquent
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (pompous2 = 2 syllables).