BOASTFUL Synonyms: 112 Similar and Opposite Words

boastful

adjective

Definition of boastful

as in conceited

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Recent Examples of boastful Slop is like the boastful person at the party who talks endlessly but says nothing. — William Arruda, Forbes.com, 9 Mar. 2026 The two boastful half-brothers clashed and split. — Gail Sheehy, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026 The postgame interviews before NBC turned to the Winter Olympics were much like how the Seahawks carried themselves throughout the week — confident but not overly boastful. — Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2026 Laemmle, footing the bill for these sumptuous methods, saw an opportunity to position Universal as a spare-no-expense enterprise, with a billboard in Times Square keeping boastful track of the ever-mounting budget. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for boastful

Recent Examples of Synonyms for boastful

Adjective

Played by Jesse Eisenberg, Zuckerberg is dramatized as a conceited, socially awkward college student who repeatedly burns allies in pursuit of power.

— Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
Meanwhile, Johnson reprises his role as Moana's bantering reluctant partner, the shapeshifting trickster demigod Maui, alongside Jemaine Clement again voicing the conceited giant crustacean Tamatoa.

— Brian Truitt, USA Today, 9 July 2026

Definition of conceited

Adjective

Innanen‘s characters in the five-episode series include a manager lacking confidence, a cocky cruise specialist, an adventure expert who deeply fears adventure and a Francophile who hasn‘t left American soil since the late ’90s.

— Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2026
On the field, there’s drama between head coach Danny Roarke (Christopher Meloni) and the cocky quarterback.

— Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of cocky

Adjective

Big Red might be a braggart, a bully and rotten to the core, but Lasdun invokes Thomas De Quincey’s neat point about how a man’s capacity to rob says nothing about his propensity to murder.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 June 2026
Of the many incarnations of the narcissist, there is the braggart, and there is also the neurotic.

— Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2025

Definition of braggart

Adjective

The trailer for The Magician’s Nephew premiered in front of a full Imax theater in the AMC at Lincoln Square, revealing a first look at Gerwig’s bombastic, epic spectacle.

— Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2026
On its face, the fair, slated for June 25 to July 10, was a bombastic mess.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of bombastic

Adjective

Ever-sensible Elinor, who never asks for much, has already met, and fallen for, Edward Ferrars (George MacKay), Fanny’s brother, as kind and modest as Fanny is arrogant.

— Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 16 Oct. 2026
Hal and Kate, having misread Trowbridge’s shock and dismay at the tragic death of Austin Dennison as a worse-than-usual bit of arrogant posturing, switch to Bad Cop mode.

— Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of arrogant

Adjective

Claire’s elective death therefore remains a problematic choice for some viewers, an act of vainglorious selfishness from a woman who was never terribly nice to begin with.

— Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 24 May 2026
Melodramatic and vainglorious, moody and capricious, a fidgety, neurotic hypochondriac, Stalin was a bundle of appalling contradictions.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Feb. 2026

Definition of vainglorious

Adjective

In between the swaggering pronouncements, Jaggseer waxes poetic about dusty roads and Chevy trucks and reflects on humble beginnings and hard work.

— Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2026
That year, the group, whose official name is Ansar Allah, surged to prominence by capturing Sana’a, the country’s capital, a swaggering first step in their evolution from a scruffy militia to the rulers of large swaths of Yemeni territory.

— Kareem Fahim, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of swaggering

Adjective

The best fans and the most prideful city in the entire world.

— Ryan Canfield OutKick, FOXNews.com, 6 Oct. 2026
The friends are witnesses to one another’s success and failures and seem to have a stake and a sense of prideful ownership over one another because of their decades-long friendships.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2026

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