Meanings
comparative more boastful · superlative most boastful · alternative archaic boastfull
- Tending to boast or brag.
He wrote a boastful autobiography, recording all his great deeds.
1 more example
It makes one's blood boil, yet heart tremble, to think that we Englishmen and our American descendants, with their boastful cry of liberty, have been and are so guilty
1839, Robert FitzRoy, Phillip Parker King, Charles Darwin, Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the Years 1826 and 1836, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLCSynonyms: bragging, crowing, gasconade, glorious, spread-eagle, swaggering, thrasonic, thrasonical
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveTending to boast or brag.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveexhibiting self-importance
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Englishbostful
- Englishboastful
From Middle English bostful, equivalent to boast + -ful.
More words from Middle English
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian самохвален
- самохвален (samohvalen)tending to boast or brag
Catalan vanagloriós, fanfarró
- vanaglorióstending to boast or brag
- fanfarrótending to boast or brag
Chinese Mandarin 自誇的 /自夸的
- 自誇的 /自夸的 (zìkuā de)tending to boast or brag
Finnish leuhka, öykkärimäinen
- leuhkatending to boast or brag
- öykkärimäinentending to boast or brag
French vantard, fanfaron
- vantardtending to boast or brag
- fanfarontending to boast or brag
German prahlerisch, stolz
- prahlerischtending to boast or brag
- stolztending to boast or brag
Hungarian dicsekvő, hencegő
- dicsekvőtending to boast or brag
- hencegőtending to boast or brag
- kérkedőtending to boast or brag
Irish mórfhoclach, mórtasach
- mórfhoclachtending to boast or brag
- mórtasachtending to boast or brag
Japanese 自慢する, 自慢に満ちた
- 自慢する (jiman suru)tending to boast or brag
- 自慢に満ちた (jiman ni michita)tending to boast or brag
Latin iactans
- iactanstending to boast or brag
Latvian lielīgs
- lielīgstending to boast or brag
Māori pākiwaha
- pākiwahatending to boast or brag
Portuguese orgulhoso
- orgulhosotending to boast or brag
Russian хвастли́вый, го́рдый
- хвастли́вый (xvastlívyj)tending to boast or brag
- го́рдый (górdyj)tending to boast or brag
Scottish Gaelic bragail
- bragailtending to boast or brag
Spanish jactancioso, fachendoso presuntuoso
- jactanciosotending to boast or brag
- fachendoso presuntuosotending to boast or brag
- echóntending to boast or brag
- jechóntending to boast or brag
- comemierdatending to boast or brag
- fanfarróntending to boast or brag
Swedish skrytsam
- skrytsamtending to boast or brag
Tagalog hambog, mahangin
- hambogtending to boast or brag
- mahangintending to boast or brag
- pasikattending to boast or brag
Turkish övüngen
- övüngentending to boast or brag
Cite this entry
boastful. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boastful
“boastful.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boastful. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “boastful,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boastful.
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