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Synonyms & Antonyms of bravado
confident or brave talk or behavior that is intended to impress other people
- His stories are always told with bravado.
- I remember his youthful bravado.
Synonyms & Near Synonyms for bravado
- arrogance,
- assumption,
- bumptiousness,
- consequence,
- haughtiness,
- hauteur,
- high horse,
- huffiness,
- imperiousness,
- loftiness,
- lordliness,
- masterfulness,
- peremptoriness,
- pomposity,
- pompousness,
- presumptuousness,
- pretense
- (or pretence),
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- self-consequence,
- self-importance,
- superciliousness,
- superiority,
- toploftiness
- chest-thumping,
- inflation,
- self-assertion,
- side
- [chiefly British],
- snobbery,
- snobbishness,
- snobbism,
- snootiness
Antonyms & Near Antonyms for bravado
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The first known use of bravado was circa 1580
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