boasts
Talks oneself up
Boasts is the plural of boast—a proud or arrogant claim about oneself or one's accomplishments: His boasts about his wealth grew tiresome.
As a verb, to boast is to speak with excessive pride: She boasted about her test scores.
The word also means to possess something worth noting: The hotel boasts a rooftop pool.
Excessive self-praise
- swaggerConfident, boastful manner
- arroganceExcessive self-importance
- vanityExcessive pride in oneself
- conceitExaggerated self-admiration
smugness · hubris · bravado · showboating · vainglory · pompousness · self-importance · grandiosity
bragging
Excessive self-praise
conceit · smugness · hubris · bravado · showboating · vainglory · pompousness · self-importance · grandiosity · triumphalism
brags
Speaks with excessive pride
asserts · flaunts · advertises · promotes · trumpets · announces · professes · contends · maintains · affirms
offers
Proposals for acceptance
features · includes · contains · displays · presents · exhibits · provides · commands · enjoys · has
- Hip-Hoprapper, rappers, rhymes, beat, lyrics
- locker room talkcrude jokes, dirty jokes, trash talk, smack talk, bragging
- tauntstaunts, taunt, taunting, neener neener, insults
- Epic Poetry Elementscantos, invocation, catalogues, funeral games, laments
boastsdownplays
De-emphasizes significance of
understates · minimizes · plays down · demurs · deflects
boast, boastful, boasting, boaster, boasted, boastfulness, boastfully, boasters