| Main Entry: | windbag |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bigmouth, chatterer |
Synonyms: |
bag of wind, big talker, blabberer, blowhard, boaster, braggart, bragger, gasbag, gascon, jabberer, know-it-all, motor-mouth |
| Main Entry: | bigmouth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a loudmouth |
Synonyms: |
bag of wind, big talker, blowhard, blusterer, boaster, brag, braggart, bragger, bull artist, bull-thrower, gasbag, gossiper, grandstander, know-it-all, show-off, swelled head, trumpeter, windbag |
| Main Entry: | blabbermouth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | someone who talks too much |
Synonyms: |
babblemouth, babbler, bag of wind, bigmouth, blabber, blabberer, blowhard, chatterbox, chatterer, gabber, gasbag, gossiper, gossipmonger, jabberer, loudmouth, motor-mouth, squealer, tattletale, windbag, yapper |
| Main Entry: | boastful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bragging |
Synonyms: |
arrogant, big, big-headed, bombastic, cocky, conceited, crowing, egotistic, egotistical, exultant, full of hot air, hifalutin, hot stuff, know-it-all, loudmouth, on ego trip, pompous, pretentious, puffed-up, self-aggrandizing, self-applauding, smart-alecky, snooty, strutting, stuck-up, swaggering, swanky, swollen-headed, too big for one's britches, vainglorious, vaunting, windbag |
Antonyms: |
deprecating, modest |
| Main Entry: | bombastic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pompous, grandiloquent |
Synonyms: |
aureate, balderdash, big-talking, declamatory, euphuistic, flowery, full of hot air, fustian, grandiose, high-flown, highfalutin, histrionic, inflated, loudmouthed, magniloquent, orotund, ostentatious, overblown, ranting, rhapsodic, rhetorical, sonorous, stuffed shirt, swollen, tumid, turgid, verbose, windbag, windy, wordy |
Antonyms: |
humble, quiet, reserved, restrained |
| Main Entry: | braggart |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who talks boastingly |
Synonyms: |
bag of wind, big talker, big-timer, bigmouth, blatherskite, blowhard, blusterer, boaster, brag, braggadocio, bragger, egotist, exhibitionist, gasbag, gascon, grandstander, hotshot, know-it-all, peacock, ranter, raver, show-off, strutter, swaggerer, swashbuckler, swelled head, trumpeter, windbag |
| Main Entry: | conceited |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | egotistical |
Synonyms: |
arrogant, big talking, bigheaded, cocky, conceity, full of hot air, gall, ham, hot stuff, immodest, know-it-all, loudmouth, narcissistic, overweening, phony, puffed up, self-important, smart-alecky, snotty, stuck up, swollen-headed, vain, vainglorious, windbag |
Antonyms: |
diffident, humble, meek, modest, self-conscious, shy, timid, unself-confident |
| Main Entry: | effusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gushing, profuse |
Synonyms: |
all jaw, big mouthed, demonstrative, ebullient, enthusiastic, expansive, extravagant, exuberant, free-flowing, fulsome, gabby, gushy, lavish, outpouring, overflowing, prolix, talkative, unconstrained, unreserved, unrestrained, verbose, windbag, windy, wordy |
| Main Entry: | garrulous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | talkative |
Synonyms: |
babbling, blabbermouth, chattering, chatty, effusive, flap jaw, gabby, glib, gossiping, gushing, long-winded, loose-lipped, loose-tongued, loquacious, motormouth, mouthy, prating, prattling, prolix, prosy, running on at the mouth, verbose, voluble, wind-bag, windy, wordy, yakkity, yakky |
Antonyms: |
mum, quiet, reserved, silent, still, untalkative |
| Main Entry: | grandiloquent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pretentious, flowery (communication) |
Synonyms: |
aureate, big-talking, bombastic, declamatory, euphistic, fustian, high-flown, histrionic, inflated, magniloquent, oratorical, orotund, overblown, pompous, purple*, rhetorical, sonorous, swollen, tall-talking, verbose, windbag, windy |
| Notes: | grandiloquent means lofty in style, pompous, or bombastic; magniloquent means lofty and extravagant in speech |
Antonyms: |
plain, simple, unadorned, unpretentious |