| Main Entry: | rodomontade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exaggeration |
Synonyms: |
bluster, boast, bombast, braggart, grandiloquence, pretension, pride, rant |
| 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: | crow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | brag, exult |
Synonyms: |
babble, blow, bluster, boast, cackle, caw, cock-a-doodle-doo, cry, flourish, gas, gloat, glory in, gurgle, jubilate, mouth, prate, puff, rodomontade, squawk, strut, swagger, triumph, vaunt, whoop |
| Main Entry: | rant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | yelling, raving |
Synonyms: |
bluster, bombast, diatribe, fustian, harangue, oration, philippic, rhapsody, rhetoric, rodomontade, tirade, vociferation |
Antonyms: |
calm, quiet |
| Main Entry: | boasting |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bragging |
Synonyms: |
braggadocio, fanfaronade, gasconade, rodomontade |
| Notes: | bragging is more obnoxious than boasting and is always exaggerated and crude |
| Main Entry: | bombast |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boasting |
Synonyms: |
altiloquence, balderdash, bluster, bombastry, braggadocio, cotton, exaggeration, fustian, gasconade, grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, pad, padded, pomposity, rage, rant, rave, rhapsody, rhetoric, rodomontade, stuff, stuffed, tumidity, turgidity, tympany |
Antonyms: |
plain speaking |
| Main Entry: | braggadocio |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boast |
Synonyms: |
boastfulness, bombast, brag, bragging, crowing. bluster, gasconade, hot air, rodomontade, vaunt |
| Main Entry: | fanfaronade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boast |
Synonyms: |
bluster, boasting, bombast, brag, braggadocio, bravado, crowing, gasconade, gloating, rodomontade, swagger, swaggering |
| Main Entry: | gasconade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boast |
Synonyms: |
avowal, bluster, bombast, brag, braggadocio, bravado, exaggeration, fanfaronade, grandiloquence, heroics, joy, pretension, pride, pride and joy, rodomontade, self-satisfaction, swank, treasure, vaunt |
| Concept: | Boasting. |
| Category: | 4. Extrinsic Affections |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
boasting; boast, vaunt, crake; pretense, pretensions; puff, puffery; flourish, fanfaronade; gasconade; blague, bluff, gas; 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., vanity; vox et praeterea nihil; much cry and little wool, brutum fulmen., exultation; gloriation, glorification; flourish of trumpets; triumph., boaster; braggart, braggadocio; Gascon, fanfaron, pretender, soi-disant; blower [U.S.], bluffer, Foxy Quiller; blusterer; charlatan, jack-pudding, trumpeter; puppy (fop).
-verbs
boast, make a boast of, brag, vaunt, puff, show off, flourish, crake, crack, trumpet, strut, swagger, vapor; blague, blow, four-flush, bluff., exult, crow, crow over, neigh, chuckle, triumph; throw up one's cap; talk big, se faire valoir, faire claquer son fouet, take merit to oneself, make a merit of, sing Io triumphe, holloa before one is out of the wood.
-adjectives
boasting; magniloquent, flaming, Thrasonic, stilted, gasconading, braggart, boastful, pretentious, soi-disant; vainglorious (conceited); highfalutin, highfaluting; spread-eagle [U.S.]., elate, elated; jubilant, triumphant, exultant; in high feather; flushed, flushed with victory; cock-a-hoop; on stilts., vaunted
-adverbs
vauntingly
-phrases
"let the galled jade wince" [Hamlet]; facta non verba.
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