braggarts
Loud self-promoters often
A braggart is someone who boasts excessively about their achievements, abilities, or possessions.
The word carries a tone of disapproval—braggarts are tiresome because their self-promotion is relentless and often exaggerated.
Nobody wanted to sit next to the office braggart at the holiday party.
The term suggests not just pride but an annoying need to announce it to others.
Boastful empty talker
- windbagOne who prattles endlessly
- show-offOne who flaunts
- bigmouthOne who talks indiscreetly
- loudmouthObnoxiously vocal person
egotist · self-promoter · grandstander · know-it-all · swaggerer · hotshot · vaunter · trumpeter
Excessive self-importance
- hubrisRuinous excessive confidence
- egotismInflated sense of self-importance
- conceitExaggerated self-admiration
- vanityExcessive pride in oneself
pomposity · self-importance · smugness · overconfidence · cockiness · vainglory · haughtiness · presumptuousness
Excessive self-praise
- vauntingBoastfully self-promoting
- self-aggrandizingExalting one's own status
- chest-thumpingShowy, aggressive boasting
- name-droppingCiting connections for status
one-upping · posturing · preening · showing-off · strutting · flaunting · grandstanding · crowing
Loud, empty boasting
- bombastPretentious hollow language
- hyperboleRhetorical extreme exaggeration
- embellishmentDecorative addition or exaggeration
- pufferyOverblown self-promotion
grandiloquence · exaggeration · overstatement · bravado · boastfulness · gasconade · rodomontade · self-praise
blowhard
Boastful empty talker
loudmouth · egotist · self-promoter · grandstander · know-it-all · swaggerer · hotshot · vaunter · trumpeter · peacock
arrogance
Excessive self-importance
- hubrisRuinous excessive confidence
- egotismInflated sense of self-importance
- conceitExaggerated self-admiration
vanity · pomposity · self-importance · smugness · overconfidence · cockiness · vainglory · haughtiness · presumptuousness · immodesty
boasting
Excessive self-praise
- vauntingBoastfully self-promoting
- self-aggrandizingExalting one's own status
- chest-thumpingShowy, aggressive boasting
name-dropping · one-upping · posturing · preening · showing-off · strutting · flaunting · grandstanding · crowing · gloating
bluster
Loud, empty boasting
- bombastPretentious hollow language
- hyperboleRhetorical extreme exaggeration
- embellishmentDecorative addition or exaggeration
puffery · grandiloquence · exaggeration · overstatement · bravado · boastfulness · gasconade · rodomontade · self-praise
- show-offsboasters, showboats, grandstanders, egotists, narcissists
- commedia dell'arteHarlequin, Pierrot, Scaramouche, stock characters, commedia
- Truth Stretchersliars, fibbers, embellishers, fabricators, bluffers
braggartsunderstaters
Those who minimize significance
shrinking violets · wallflowers · minimizers · strong silent types