Boast

Noun

 * 1) A brag, a loud appraisal of oneself
 * 2)  A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall
 * 3)  An oath or toast made during a ritual in Heathenry.

Verb

 * 1) to brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself
 * 2)  To play a boast shot
 * 3)  To possess something special.

Adjectives for Boast
absurd; playful; empty; foolish; truthful; proudest; ordinary; unique; unadulterated; vapid; peerless; ignoble; honest; sentimental; fanatic; airy; childish; frantic; prattling; noisy; vain.

Adverbs for Boast
justly; blatantly; unmitigatedly; exuberantly; arrogantly;  intoxicatedly;  hollowly; overweeningly; whimsically; vainly; egotistically; vapidly; ignobly; fanatically; prattlingly.

Synonyms for Boast
brag, flourish, exult, vaunt, bluster.

Antonyms for Boast
speak modestly.

Derived terms
boastful; boastfully; outboast

Thesaurus
aggrandize, be enfeoffed of, be possessed of, be seized of, blow, bluster, boastfulness, boasting, bombast, bounce, brag, braggadocio, braggartism, bragging, bravado, bully, catch, claim, cock-a-doodle-doo, command, conceit, crow, diamond, draw the longbow, ego-trip, enjoy, exalt, fanfaronade, fill, find, fish for compliments, flaunt, flourish, gasconade, gasconism, gem, glory, godsend, good thing, gush, have, have and hold, have in hand, have no self-doubt, have tenure of, heroics, hold, jactation, jactitation, jewel, know it all, mouth, occupy, parade, pearl, pique, plum, plume, possess, prate, preen, pride, pride and joy, prize, puff, quack, rodomontade, ruffle, show off, side, speak for Buncombe, squat, squat on, swagger, swash, swashbuckle, talk big, treasure, triumph, trophy, trouvaille, usucapt, vanity, vapor, vaunt, vauntery, vaunting, windfall, winner

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