boastful

English

Alternative forms

• boastfull (archaic)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English bostful, equivalent to boast +‎ -ful.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

boastful (comparative more boastful, superlative most boastful)

1. 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／自夸的 (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)
• Latin: iactans
• Latvian: lielīgs
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• 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), fachendoso m (colloquial)
• Swedish: skytsam
• Yakut: бардам (bardam)

See also

• cocky
• proud

Anagrams

• boatfuls, boatsful