braggy
- adjective
- /ˈbræɡi/
- Informal
- She often comes across as braggy when she talks about her achievements.
You can get in trouble if you're down in Florida and you're being all braggy about yourself.
- You can get in trouble if you're down in Florida and you're being all braggy about yourself.
- And so the ones who are tend to be a little bit more braggy, tend to be a little bit more egotistical, a, a bit more full of themselves.
- It's either shamy fetishy, braggy, FOMO E Yolo E.
- The grandiose narcissist, like we said, is that classical textbook show offy, braggy, annoying grandiose narcissist.
- The show off the arrogant, braggy, snobby, extroverted, charming, charismatic, selfish narcissist.
Examples
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What if you make a resolution in social media, you know, and you're being kind of braggy about it or being very public about it.
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Now I feel like I'm just being braggy.
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Pretty braggy name for such a scrawny kid!
Fiction book (1998) -
You can get in trouble if you're down in Florida and you're being all braggy about yourself.
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She seemed a little braggy but also apologetic; she said the halfway house had lost its funding, and the state was selling it cheap.
Fiction book (1991) -
This whole post probably sounds narcissistic and braggy, but I really don't get compliments like that often at all.
Blog text (3) -
His braggy attitude made it hard for others to take him seriously.
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Even though she was proud of her grades, she tried not to sound too braggy.
Synonyms
Being too confident and acting proud so other people dislike you
A person who feels too pleased with themselves in a way that annoys others
Thinking you are much better than other people
Seeing yourself as much more important than other people
Feeling or acting as if you are better than other people
Being too proud of achievements or skills in a way that annoys others
Claiming to be more important or successful than you are
Bragging too much about how great you think you are
Being very pleased with yourself and showing it in a loud, showy way
Thinking you are more important than other people
Being too proud and too sure of yourself so you ignore advice and make bad decisions
Too confident and rude in a way that annoys other people
Talking too proudly about yourself in a showy way
Acting proud and showing off in an annoying way
Feeling very proud and excited and showing it to others
Thinking you are better than other people
Believing you are better than other people and acting like it
Antonyms
How Boastful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Braggy comes from the verb brag, which means 'to boast' or show off, and the ending -y means 'full of'. So braggy describes someone 'full of boasting', like a braggart, and explains why it means boastful.