Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Boasting

Nouns
  • boasting etc. v.
  • boast, vaunt, crake
  • pretense, pretensions
  • puff, puffery
  • flourish, fanfaronade
  • gasconade
  • blague, bluff, gas [Slang]
  • highfalutin, highfaluting
  • hot air, spread-eagleism [U.S.]
  • brag, braggardism
  • bravado, bunkum, buncombe
  • jactitation, jactancy
  • bounce
  • venditation, vaporing, rodomontade, bombast, fine talking, tall talk, magniloquence, teratology, heroics
  • Chauvinism
  • exaggeration etc. Exaggeration. vanity etc. Vanity
  • much cry and little wool
  • gloriation, glorification
  • flourish of trumpets
  • triumph etc. Celebration. boaster
  • braggart, braggadocio
  • fanfaron, pretender
  • blower [U.S.], bluffer, Foxy Quiller
  • blusterer etc. Blusterer
  • charlatan, jack-pudding, trumpeter
  • puppy etc. (fop) Fop.
Verbs
  • boast, make a boast of, brag, vaunt, Puff, show off, flourish, crake, crack, trumpet, strut, swagger, vapor
  • blague, blow, four-flush [Slang], bluff. exult, crow, crow over, neigh, chuckle, triumph
  • throw up one's cap
  • talk big, take merit to oneself, make a merit of, sing Io triumphe, holloa before one is out of the wood.
Adjectives
  • boasting etc. v.
  • magniloquent, flaming, Thrasonic, stilted, gasconading, braggart, boastful, pretentious
  • vainglorious etc. (conceited) Vanity
  • highfalutin, highfaluting
  • spread-eagle [U.S.]. elate, elated
  • jubilant, triumphant, exultant
  • in high feather
  • flushed, flushed with victory
  • cock-a-hoop
  • on stilts. vaunted etc. v..
Adverbs
  • vauntingly etc. adj..
Phrases
  • let the galled jade wince" [Hamlet]