BOASTFUL Synonyms: 112 Similar and Opposite Words

boastful

adjective

Definition of boastful

as in conceited

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Recent Examples of boastful The two boastful half-brothers clashed and split. — Gail Sheehy, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026 The postgame interviews before NBC turned to the Winter Olympics were much like how the Seahawks carried themselves throughout the week — confident but not overly boastful. — Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2026 Laemmle, footing the bill for these sumptuous methods, saw an opportunity to position Universal as a spare-no-expense enterprise, with a billboard in Times Square keeping boastful track of the ever-mounting budget. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2026 Composers Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss employ the styles of contemporary pop divas like Britney Spears and Lizzo for the boastful, cutting songs. — Manuel Mendoza, Dallas Morning News, 16 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for boastful

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Adjective

Meanwhile, Johnson reprises his role as Moana's bantering reluctant partner, the shapeshifting trickster demigod Maui, alongside Jemaine Clement again voicing the conceited giant crustacean Tamatoa.

— Brian Truitt, USA Today, 9 July 2026
Avoid Burying Praise in Negatives To avoid making children too conceited, parents might bury praise in the midst of negatives.

— Wayne Parker, Parents, 8 Mar. 2026

Definition of conceited

Adjective

Lanky with striking red hair and a cocky demeanor, Clapper was dogged and respected by his fellow cops.

— Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, 30 June 2026
Thanks to one impossibly cocky fighter pilot named Maverick, Reagan-era America never felt better about itself — or its military might.

— Kevin P. Sullivan, Entertainment Weekly, 26 June 2026

Definition of cocky

Adjective

Big Red might be a braggart, a bully and rotten to the core, but Lasdun invokes Thomas De Quincey’s neat point about how a man’s capacity to rob says nothing about his propensity to murder.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 June 2026
Of the many incarnations of the narcissist, there is the braggart, and there is also the neurotic.

— Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2025

Definition of braggart

Adjective

Emboldened by her sudden fame, Tyler signed to Sony in the early 1980s and, anxious to reinvent herself, petitioned the bombastic songwriter Jim Steinman to plot her a pivot to arena rock.

— Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 9 July 2026
Clive was big, and bombastic, and brave, and full of ideas, and just believed, believed, believed, believed.

— Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2026

Definition of bombastic

Adjective

West Germany, arrogant attitude adjusted, pounded Chile, 4-1.

— David j. Neal, Miami Herald, 24 June 2026
Lasso, in his initial introduction to audiences, wasn’t the warm, pun-loving, inspirational coach audiences would eventually embrace through Apple +, but a slightly arrogant buffoon parodying the average American sports fan.

— Charles Moss, New York Times, 24 June 2026

Definition of arrogant

Adjective

Claire’s elective death therefore remains a problematic choice for some viewers, an act of vainglorious selfishness from a woman who was never terribly nice to begin with.

— Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 24 May 2026
Melodramatic and vainglorious, moody and capricious, a fidgety, neurotic hypochondriac, Stalin was a bundle of appalling contradictions.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Feb. 2026

Definition of vainglorious

Adjective

Soprano Anna Thompson sings the role of the faithful Micaëla, and Mexican baritone Raúl Morales Velazco is the swaggering toreador Escamillo.

— Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 9 July 2026
The group went on to earn national and international acclaim before its swaggering leader, Country Dick Montana, died on stage midway through a 1995 show in Canada.

— George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2026

Definition of swaggering

Adjective

Other Saturday highlights included an indie throwback set from Passion Pit, a prideful performance from Rainbow Kitten Surprise, powerful vocals from Teddy Swims in the rain and dance music energy from Rüfüs Du Sol.

— Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 June 2026
Beginning with the pilot, there’s also been an appealing restlessness to Kate, a loose physicality and prideful disregard for glamour.

— David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 18 June 2026

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