Word Meanings - BOASTLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Without boasting or ostentation.

BOASTFUL
Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising. -- Boast"ful*ly, adv. -- Boast"ful*ness, n.
OSTENTATION
1. The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense. "Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm." Milton. He knew that good and bountiful minds were sometimes inclined to
BOASTER
One who boasts; a braggart.
WITHOUT-DOOR
Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
WITHOUTFORTH
Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
BOAST
bausen, bauschen, to swell, pusten, Dan. puste, Sw. pusta, to blow, Sw. pösa to swell; or W. bostio to boast, bost boast, Gael. bosd. But 1. To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of
BOASTING
The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display. When boasting ends, then dignity begins. Young.
WITHOUTEN
Without. Chaucer.
BOASTANCE
Boasting. Chaucer.
BOASTIVE
Presumptuous.
BOASTINGLY
Boastfully; with boasting. "He boastingly tells you." Burke.
WITHOUT
1. On or at the outside of; out of; not within; as, without doors. Without the gate Some drive the cars, and some the coursers rein. Dryden. 2. Out of the limits of; out of reach of; beyond. Eternity, before the world and after, is without our
BOASTLESS
Without boasting or ostentation.