| Main Entry: | brag |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | talk boastingly |
Synonyms: |
blow one's own horn, bluster*, boast, crow*, exult, gasconade, gloat, grandstand, hotdog, jive, mouth*, pat oneself on the back, prate, puff, rodomontade, showboat, shuck, swagger, vaunt |
Antonyms: |
be modest, be quiet, deprecate |
| Main Entry: | bragging |
| Part of Speech: | |
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Adjectives: |
boastful, boasting, braggart, cock, elated, exultant, flaming, flushed, flushed with victory, gasconading, in high feather, jactant, jubilant, magniloquent, on stilts, pretentious, stilted, thrasonic, thrasonical, triumphant, vainglorious, vaunted
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| Main Entry: | arrogant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having exaggerated self-opinion |
Synonyms: |
aloof, assuming, audacious, autocratic, biggety, bossy, bragging, cavalier, cheeky, cocky, cold-shoulder, conceited, contemptuous, cool*, disdainful, domineering, egotistic, haughty, high and mighty, high-handed, imperious, insolent, know-it-all, lordly, on an ego trip, overbearing, peremptory, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, proud, puffed up, scornful, self-important, smarty, smug, sniffy, snippy, snooty, snotty, stuck up, supercilious, superior, swaggering, uppity, vain, wise guy |
Antonyms: |
humble, meek, servile, unconceited |
| Main Entry: | big |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | arrogant |
Synonyms: |
arty, boastful, bragging, conceited, flamboyant, haughty, high-sounding, imperious, imposing, inflated, overblown, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, proud |
Antonyms: |
humble, shy, unconfident |
| Main Entry: | bluff |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boast; deceit |
Synonyms: |
bluster, braggadocio, bragging, bravado, deception, delusion, facade, fake, false colors, false front, feint, fraud, front, humbug, jiving, lie, pretense, pretext, ruse, sham, show, snow*, stall, subterfuge, trick |
| Main Entry: | bluster |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bullying, intimidation |
Synonyms: |
bluff, boasting, boisterousness, bombast, braggadocio, bragging, bravado, crowing, rabidity, rampancy, swagger, swaggering |
| Main Entry: | bluster |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bully, intimidate |
Synonyms: |
badger, boast, brag, brazen, browbeat, bulldoze, cow*, crow*, domineer, gloat, hector, rant, rave, ride the high horse, roar, roister, shoot off one's mouth, show off, storm, strut, swagger, swell, talk big, vapor, vaunt, yap |
| Main Entry: | bravado |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boastfulness |
Synonyms: |
blowing, bluff, bluster, boasting, bombast, braggadocio, bragging, bullying, crowing, fancy talk, fanfaronade, fuming, gasconade, grandiosity, guts*, hot air, pomposity, pretension, raging, railing, rant, selfglorification, storming, swaggering, swelling, talk, tall talk |
Antonyms: |
cowardice, fear, fearfulness, modesty, restraint |
| Main Entry: | egoism/egotism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | self-centeredness |
Synonyms: |
arrogance, assurance, boastfulness, boasting, bragging, conceit, conceitedness, egocentricity, egomania, gasconade, haughtiness, insolence, megalomania, narcissism, ostentation, overconfidence, preoccupation with self, presumption, pride, self-absorption, self-admiration, self-confidence, self-importance, self-interest, self-love, self-possession, self-regard, self-worship, selfishness, superiority, swellheadedness, vainglory, vanity, vaunting |
Antonyms: |
altruism, humility, selflessness |
| Main Entry: | egotistic/egoistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | thinking very highly of oneself |
Synonyms: |
affected, aloof, autocratic, boastful, boasting, bragging, conceited, egocentric, egomaniacal, haughty, individualistic, inflated, inner-directed, intimate, intrinsic, introverted, isolated, narcissistic, obsessive, opinionated, personal, pompous, prideful, proud, puffed up, self-absorbed, self-admiring, self-centered, self-important, snobbish, stuck on oneself, stuck-up, subjective, superior, swollen, vain, vainglorious |
Antonyms: |
altruistic, humble, modest, reserved, selfless, shy, submissive, timid, unassuming |