boastful adj : exhibiting self-importance; "big talk" [syn: braggart(a), bragging(a), braggy, big, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandizing, self-aggrandising]

English

Etymology

From boast + -ful.

Pronunciation

Adjective

1. Tending to boast or brag.

   He wrote a boastful autobiography, recording all his great deeds.

Translations

See also

• proud

Gascon, arrogant, boasting, braggart, bragging, cock-a-hoop, conceited, egotistical, exultant, fanfaron, fanfaronading, gasconading, haughty, ostentatious, pretentious, proud, rodomontade, self-advertising, self-aggrandizing, self-applauding, self-flattering, self-glorious, self-lauding, self-vaunting, show-off, swelled-headed, thrasonic, thrasonical, vain, vainglorious, vaporing, vaunting