boastful

English

Alternative forms

boastfull (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English bostful, equivalent to boast +‎ -ful.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

boastful (comparative more boastful, superlative most boastful)

Tending to boast or brag.
He wrote a boastful autobiography, recording all his great deeds.

Derived terms

boastfulness

Translations

tending to boast or brag

Bulgarian: самохвален (bg) (samohvalen)
Catalan: vanagloriós
Chinese:
Mandarin: 自誇的 (zh), 自夸的 (zh) (zìkuā de)
Finnish: leuhka, öykkärimäinen (fi)
French: vantard (fr), fanfaron (fr)
Galician: fantoche m or f, vaidoso
German: prahlerisch, stolz (de) (proud)
Hungarian: dicsekvő (hu), hencegő (hu), kérkedő (hu)
Irish: mórfhoclach
Japanese: 自慢する (ja) (じまんする, jiman suru), 自慢に満ちた (ja) (じまんにみちた, jiman ni michita)
Latvian: lielīgs

Maori: pākiwaha
Mongolian: бардам (mn) (bardam)
Portuguese: orgulhoso (pt) m
Russian: хвастли́вый (ru) (xvastlívyj), го́рдый (ru) (górdyj) (proud)
Scottish Gaelic: bragail
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: хвалисав, самохвалисав

Roman: hvalisav (sh), samohvalisav
Spanish: jactancioso (es)
Swedish: skytsam
Yakut: бардам (bardam)

See also

proud

Anagrams

boatfuls, boatsful

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