bragging
Touting one's achievements
Bragging is boastful talk about one's achievements, possessions, or abilities.
The word carries a negative connotation—someone who brags seeks admiration but often produces annoyance: All his bragging about his new car got old fast.
As an adjective, bragging describes the boastful tone itself: bragging rights are the privilege of boasting after a victory.
Proud, showy gait
- cockyExcessively self-assured
- showboatOstentatious attention-seeker
- flauntDisplay to provoke envy
- peacockingOstentatious self-display
flashy · ostentatious · showy · flaunting · grandstanding · posturing · flexing · stunting
Given to self-praise
- self-importanceExaggerated sense of significance
- narcissismExcessive admiration of oneself
- egotismInflated sense of self-importance
- arroganceExcessive self-importance
conceit · hubris · smugness · self-centered · vainglory · immodesty · self-aggrandizing · self-praise
Add decorative elements
- overstateRepresent as greater
- inflateFill with gas
- hyperboleRhetorical extreme exaggeration
- amplifyIncrease in strength
dramatize · stretch · aggrandize · overblown · name-dropping · one-upmanship · oversell · bluster
strut
Proud, showy gait
peacocking · flashy · ostentatious · showy · flaunting · grandstanding · posturing · flexing · stunting · showing-off
boastful
Given to self-praise
- self-importanceExaggerated sense of significance
- narcissismExcessive admiration of oneself
- egotismInflated sense of self-importance
arrogance · conceit · hubris · smugness · self-centered · vainglory · immodesty · self-aggrandizing · self-praise · blowhard
embellish
Add decorative elements
amplify · dramatize · stretch · aggrandize · overblown · name-dropping · one-upmanship · oversell · bluster · spin
accomplishment
Successful completion of aim
medal · champion · accolade · recognition · triumph · glory · winner · milestone · record · personal-best
- bad behaviorcheating, stealing, lying, greed, selfishness
- bad behaviorslying, cheating, stealing, rudeness, gossiping
- behaviorshabit, aggressive, agitation, conduct, passive
- self-promotionboasting, self-praise, plugging, showing off, touting
- showing offboasting, show off, boasted, flaunting, flaunt
- slang behaviorsgoofing off, messing around, fooling around, horsing around, slacking
braggingmodesty
Absence of vanity
humility · humble · self-deprecation · modest · self-effacement
braggingself-doubt
Uncertainty about oneself
insecurity · diffidence · shame · timidity · shyness
bragginghonesty
Truthfulness, sincerity
truthfulness · candor · understatement · confessing · self-criticism
- bragging rightsInformal claim to superiority
- humble braggingSelf-promotion masked as complaint
- bragging onProudly praising someone