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- Dictionaryboastful/ˈbəʊstf(ʊ)l/
adjective
- 1. showing excessive pride and self-satisfaction in one's achievements, possessions, or abilities: "he always seemed to be rather boastful and above himself"
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adjective. disapproving uk / ˈbəʊst.f ə l / us / ˈboʊst.f ə l / Add to word list. praising yourself and what you have done. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. boastful He was confident, not boastful. bumptious His critics have depicted him as a bumptious, privately-educated son of privilege.
Someone who is overly proud and arrogant can be described as boastful. Your boastful classmate is always going on and on about his own amazing achievements and incredible successes. It's perfectly okay to brag about yourself sometimes.
: given to or marked by boasting : expressing excessive self-pride. a vain, boastful man. A few of the … parents are downright boastful about their sons. Jane Gross. … journalists who are only too willing to take at face value the boastful pronouncements of the company's publicity department. Jeffrey Young.
having a tendency to praise yourself and what you have done. (Definition of boastful from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of boastful. boastful. It's easy to see why he's so boastful. From The Verge.
1. To say (something about oneself) in a proud or self-admiring way. 2. To have or possess (a desirable feature): a mall that boasts 80 shops. n. 1. The act or an instance of boasting: got tired of listening to his boasts. 2. A source of pride. [Middle English bosten, from bost, a brag.] boast′er n. boast′ful adj. boast′ful·ly adv.
Tending to boast; characterized by boasting.... Click for English pronunciations, examples sentences, video.
Definition of boastful adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
