Word Meanings - BOASTFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising. -- Boast"ful*ly, adv. -- Boast"ful*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BOASTFUL)

• Ostentations
• Showy
• vain
• boastful
• vainglorious
• Proud
• Arrogant
• haughty
• imperious
• supercilious
• presumptuous
• vain glorious
• ostentatious
• elated
• self-satisfied
• lofty
• imposing
• magnificent
• self-conscious
• Triumphant
• Victorious
• successful
• rejoicing
• exultant

Related words: (words related to BOASTFUL)

• MAGNIFICENTLY
  In a Magnificent manner.
• IMPOSABLE
  Capable of being imposed or laid on. Hammond.
• PROUDLING
  A proud or haughty person. Sylvester.
• ELATION
  A lifting up by success; exaltation; inriation with pride of prosperity. "Felt the elation of triumph." Sir W. Scott.
• PROUD
  prout, prud, prut, AS. prut; akin to Icel. pruedhr stately, handsome, 1. Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense; as: Possessing or showing too great self-esteem; overrating one's excellences; hence, arrogant; haughty; lordly;
• BOASTFUL
  Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising. -- Boast"ful*ly, adv. -- Boast"ful*ness, n.
• IMPOSINGNESS
  The quality of being imposing.
• IMPOSTRESS; IMPOSTRIX
  A woman who imposes upon or deceives others. Fuller.
• IMPOSTURAGE
  Imposture; cheating. Jer. Taylor.
• PRESUMPTUOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being presumptuous.
• IMPOSTOR
  One who imposes upon others; a person who assumes a character or title not his own, for the purpose of deception; a pretender. "The fraudulent impostor foul." Milton. Syn. -- Deceiver; cheat; rogue. See Deceiver.
• ARROGANTLY
  In an arrogant manner; with undue pride or self-importance.
• IMPOSTHUMATION
  1. The act of forming an abscess; state of being inflamed; suppuration. 2. An abscess; an imposthume. Coxe.
• TRIUMPHANTLY
  In a triumphant manner.
• PROUDISH
  Somewhat proud. Ash.
• REJOICE
  To feel joy; to experience gladness in a high degree; to have pleasurable satisfaction; to be delighted. "O, rejoice beyond a common joy." Shak. I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy. Ps. xxxi. 7. Syn. To delight; joy; exult; triumph. (more info)
• IMPOSING
  1. Laying as a duty; enjoining. 2. Adapted to impress forcibly; impressive; commanding; as, an imposing air; an imposing spectacle. "Large and imposing edifices." Bp. Hobart. 3. Deceiving; deluding; misleading.
• ELATEROMETER
  See ELATROMETER
• SUPERCILIOUS
  Lofty with pride; haughty; dictatorial; overbearing; arrogant; as, a supercilious officer; asupercilious air; supercilious behavior. -- Su`per*cil"i*ous*ly, adv. -- Su`per*cil"i*ous*ness, n. (more info) eyebrow, pride; super over, + cilium
• ELATE
  figure, perh., being borrowed from a prancing horse); e out + latus , for tlatus, and akin to E. 1. Lifted up; raised; elevated. With upper lip elate. Fenton. And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes, elate, Sits
• PRELATIST
  One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
• MANDELATE
  A salt of mandelic acid.
• GELATIFICATION
  The formation of gelatin.
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• PRELATISM
  Prelacy; episcopacy.
• CRENELATION
  The act of crenelating, or the state of being crenelated; an indentation or an embrasure.
• PRELATIZE
  To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey.
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• ANHELATION
  Short and rapid breathing; a panting; asthma. Glanvill.
• SPHACELATE
  To die, decay, or become gangrenous, as flesh or bone; to mortify.
• OVERPROUD
  Exceedingly or unduly proud. "Overproud of his victory." Milton.
• GELATINATION
  The act of process of converting into gelatin, or a substance like jelly.
• GELATINIZATION
  See GELATINATION