to boast
96
3.1
- verb
- /boʊst/
:
presumir de
- Japan is first in installations of solar PV cells, boasting two of the five leading world manufacturers.
- boast about success
- boast of one's own
A cheap, transparent, racist, divisive stunt that Trump later boasted was a stunt.
- A cheap, transparent, racist, divisive stunt that Trump later boasted was a stunt.
- Yes, you know you're the good guys when you boast about having the unstoppable apparatus.
- So he says the marketplace is full of solemn buffoons, and the people boast of their great men.
- And no, none other than Vernon Briggs, a pro union Cornell University professor, gleefully boasted in a recent article.
- Murad boasts that he will sever Frenchman's heads like slicing watermelons in a field.
- Trump henchman Roger Stone boasts about trading admiring messages with the hacker Gucci for two point O.
- OK, because that often boasted about number.
- Trump must confound, contradict, exploit, boast, insult.
Examples
-
I hate to boast, but I think the people of our community... ...are some of the finest folks in America.
-
Anyway, one night he started boasting about this cottage he had in Wales.
-
I don't want to boast, but...
-
I don't like to boast.
-
Until this year, the Arab world boasted a long list of such leaders.
Academic text (2011) -
Why else would a Conservative MP boast that he's not watching his own team?
-
We celebrate the music educators who boast 10 percent school enrollment in their music ensembles.
Academic text (2011) -
By the end of 2010, the Afghan police force boasted nearly 120,000 officers, 11,000 more than its target.
Academic text (2011) -
By the mid-1980s, Venezuela could no longer boast of being one of Latin America's few democracies.
Academic text (1993) -
He loves to boast about his extensive collection of vintage cars.
Synonyms
216
3.2
To act proudly to get attention or praise
191
2.7
To talk in a proud way about yourself or what you have
151
7.7
To talk proudly about achievements to make others admire you
65
6.1
To praise or advertise something strongly to make people want it
8
7.8
To say you are more important or successful than you really are
7
7.5
To talk proudly about things you have done
6
7.9
To brag in a way that annoys other people
5
6.8
To speak loudly to try to impress or scare others while having little effect
4
7.0
To act or speak in a proud, boastful way
1
7.8
To talk proudly about your own abilities or achievements
1
8.9
To talk proudly about your achievements to show off
To talk too proudly about yourself or what you have done
To talk proudly about your success in public
To brag about what you have done
To talk about yourself to show you are more important
Be unable to stop yourself from bragging about a success
To say proud things to make yourself seem better than you are
Antonyms
How Boastful
Surface Forms
Etymology
Boast comes from an old word bost meaning 'pride', so picture someone puffing out their chest because they feel important. That's why to boast is to talk about your achievements proudly or to show off.