| Main Entry: | swagger |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | show off; walk pompously |
Synonyms: |
bluster, boast, brag, brandish, bully, cock, flourish, gasconade, gloat, grandstand, hector, look big, lord, parade, parade one's wares, peacock, play to the crowd, pontificate, prance, put on, put on airs, sashay, saunter, strut, swank, swashbuckle, sway, sweep, swell |
| Main Entry: | arrogance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exaggerated self-opinion |
Synonyms: |
airs, aloofness, audacity, bluster, braggadocio, brass, cheek, chutzpah*, conceit, conceitedness, contemptuousness, crust, disdain, disdainfulness, ego, egotism, gall, haughtiness, hauteur, high-handedness, hubris, imperiousness, insolence, loftiness, nerve, ostentation, overbearance, pomposity, pompousness, presumption, pretension, pretentiousness, pride, priggishness, scornfulness, self-importance, self-love, smugness, superciliousness, swagger, vanity |
Antonyms: |
humility, meekness, servility |
| 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: | boast |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | brag |
Synonyms: |
advertise, aggrandize, attract attention, blow, blow one's own horn, blow smoke, bluster, bully, cock-a-doodle-doo, con, congratulate oneself, crow, exaggerate, exult, fake, flatter oneself, flaunt, flourish, gasconade, give a good account of oneself, gloat, glory, grandstand, hug oneself, jive, lay on thick, prate, preen, psych, puff, shoot*, shovel, show off, showboat, shuck, sling, sound off, strut, swagger, talk big, triumph, vapor |
Antonyms: |
be modest, deprecate |
| 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: | bully |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | intimidate, push around |
Synonyms: |
bludgeon, bluster, browbeat, buffalo, bulldoze, coerce, cow, despotize, domineer, dragoon, enforce, harass, hector, lean on, menace, oppress, overbear, persecute, ride roughshod, showboat, swagger, terrorize, threaten, torment, torture, turn on the heat, tyrannize, walk heavy |
Antonyms: |
allow, leave alone |
| Main Entry: | conceit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | egotism |
Synonyms: |
amour-propre, arrogance, complacence, complacency, consequence, immodesty, narcissism, outrecuidance, pomposity, pride, self-admiration, self-conceit, self-exaltation, self-importance, self-love, self-regard, smugness, snottiness, stuffiness, swagger, swelled head, vainglory, vainness, vanity |
Antonyms: |
humility, meekness, modesty, self-consciousness, shyness, timidity, unself-confidence |
| 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: | domineer |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | oppress; assume authority |
Synonyms: |
be in the saddle, bend, bluster, boss around, browbeat, bulldoze, bully*, call the shots, dominate, hector, henpeck, in the driver's seat, intimidate, keep under thumb, kick around, lead by the nose, menace, overbear, predominate, preponderate, prevail, push the buttons, reign, rule, rule the roost, run the show, run things, swagger, threaten, throw weight around, tyrannize |
Antonyms: |
follow, submit, surrender, yield |