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

He’s known for his cocky attitude, teaming up with fellow hero Blue Beetle and traveling with his robot companion Skeets.

— Jordan Moreau, Variety, 31 July 2026
Dix was a baseball prodigy too cocky and flashy for his own good who now coasts through life on his long-ago heroics coupled with charm and an undeserved diet of luck.

— Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 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

Fans have in some instances railed against commentator Alexi Lalas, a veteran analyst, player and soccer executive who has been accused of being too bombastic, and even partisan during his time on air.

— Brian Steinberg, Variety, 22 July 2026
This bombastic rhetoric echoes an inherent feeling of frustration in Russia over the failure to segregate Ukraine from the West.

— Ihor N. Stelmach, Hartford Courant, 19 July 2026

Definition of bombastic

Adjective

Perhaps in the arrogant belief that a war with Iran would quickly end in a decisive victory, the Pentagon did not have cost-effective systems ready to intercept these weapons.

— Phillips Payson O’Brien, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2026
Nick Aldis’ wife Mickie James was ringside, where she was taunted by an arrogant Gunther.

— Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 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

Olivia Wilde plays the swaggering multidisciplinary artist Erika Tracy, whose portfolio includes a pointillist vulva composed of chewed gum, an audio loop of her own orgasm, and an enormous, Claes Oldenburg-esque sculpture of a spiked fetish collar.

— Holden Seidlitz, New Yorker, 26 July 2026
Unlike the swaggering Daemon, this wounded Aemond is vulnerable.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026

Definition of swaggering

Adjective

As is the case with most of Oleszko’s work, the title is a pun, referring both to this figure’s act of blowing into its instrument as well as a phrase that denotes an overly prideful person.

— Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 16 July 2026
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

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