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    boasting
    /ˈbəʊstɪŋ/

    noun

    • 1. excessively proud and self-satisfied talk about one's achievements, possessions, or abilities: "his online boasting led police straight to his doorstep"

    adjective

    • 1. exhibiting or characterized by excessive pride or self-satisfaction: "she addressed his boasting comments about being a famous billionaire"

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  2. Boasting is the present participle of boast, which means to speak too proudly or happily about what you have done or what you own. Learn more about the meaning, synonyms, and usage of boasting with examples from the Cambridge English Corpus.

  3. Learn the meaning, synonyms, examples, and history of the word boast, which can be a noun or a verb. Boast means to praise oneself extravagantly or to have something that is a source of pride.

  4. Boast means to speak proudly or happily about something you have done or own, or to have or own something to be proud of. Learn how to use boast in a sentence, and find synonyms and antonyms for boast.

  5. Learn the meaning, pronunciation, synonyms, and usage of the verb 'boast' and its noun and adjective forms. Find out the difference between 'boast', 'brag', and 'vaunt', and how to use them in sentences.

  6. When you boast you are bragging about yourself and your accomplishments (or maybe those of your family), often to the boredom and annoyance of your audience. Used as either a noun or a verb, boast usually suggests exaggeration, vanity, or pride.

  7. noun. speaking of yourself in superlatives. synonyms: boast, jactitation, self-praise. see more. Cite this entry. Style: MLA. "Boasting." Vocabulary.com Dictionary, Vocabulary.com, https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/boasting. Accessed 30 Sep. 2024. Copy citation. Teachers, claim your 10-day free trial and transform your classroom today.

  8. Boast means to talk in a way that shows you are too proud of something that you have or can do. Learn how to use boast in different contexts, with synonyms, collocations and word origin.