boasted
Crowed about oneself
Boasted is the past tense of boast, meaning to have spoken with excessive pride about oneself or one's accomplishments.
He boasted about his promotion to anyone who would listen.
Someone who boasted may have been sharing genuine achievements or exaggerating them—the word implies self-satisfaction that listeners often find tiresome.
Boasted can also describe something that was possessed or featured as a point of pride: The hotel boasted a rooftop pool with ocean views.
Spoke boastfully
- swaggerConfident, boastful manner
- vauntBrag or crow
- gloatRelish superiority smugly
- crowLarge black corvid
flaunt · brag · showboat · grandstand · bluster · trumpeted · crowed · swaggered
Had or was inhabited
- sportedWore conspicuously
- featuredProminently displayed or included
- showcasedDisplayed with prominence
- displayedPresented for observation
exhibited · offered · presented · flaunted · paraded · highlighted · included · contained
Stated as fact
- assertedStated as fact
- announcedPublicly stated or declared
- declaredStated with authority
- proclaimedDeclared in public
stated · maintained · professed · contended · avowed · touted · heralded · promoted
Satisfied by accomplishment
- arrogantExcessively high self-regard
- vainExcessively proud or futile
- conceitedExcessively proud of oneself
- smugExcessively self-satisfied
self-satisfied · pompous · haughty · superior · egotistical · self-important · puffed-up · bigheaded
Decorated or exaggerated
- overstatedClaimed more than true
- inflatedExpanded with gas
- exaggeratedMade larger than reality
- pufferyOverblown self-promotion
overblown · hyperbole · tall-tale · whopper · stretched · magnified · oversold · aggrandized
bragged
Spoke boastfully
crow · flaunt · brag · showboat · grandstand · bluster · trumpeted · crowed · swaggered · preened
possessed
Had or was inhabited
- sportedWore conspicuously
- featuredProminently displayed or included
- showcasedDisplayed with prominence
displayed · exhibited · offered · presented · flaunted · paraded · highlighted · included · contained
claimed
Stated as fact
proclaimed · stated · maintained · professed · contended · avowed · touted · heralded · promoted · advertised
proud
Satisfied by accomplishment
- arrogantExcessively high self-regard
- vainExcessively proud or futile
- conceitedExcessively proud of oneself
smug · self-satisfied · pompous · haughty · superior · egotistical · self-important · puffed-up · bigheaded · cocky
embellished
Decorated or exaggerated
- overstatedClaimed more than true
- inflatedExpanded with gas
- exaggeratedMade larger than reality
puffery · overblown · hyperbole · tall-tale · whopper · stretched · magnified · oversold · aggrandized · overplayed
boasteddownplayed
Minimized the significance of
understated · minimized · played down · depreciated · underplayed
boastedconcealed
Made invisible deliberately
hid · withheld · suppressed · covered up · kept quiet