gasconade
Swaggering verbal display
Gasconade is extravagant boasting or bravado—the kind of swaggering self-promotion that sounds impressive but may lack substance.
The word can also function as a verb meaning to boast in this flamboyant way: He gasconaded about his exploits until everyone stopped listening.
The term is literary and uncommon, carrying a faintly comic tone that suggests the speaker finds the boasting overwrought or absurd.
Speak with excessive pride
rodomontade · braggadocio · grandstand · showboat · trumpet · flaunt · strut · puffery
Loud, empty boasting
- machismoExcessive masculine pride
- posturingInsincere behavior for effect
- swashbucklingFlamboyantly daring and heroic
- cockinessBrash overconfidence
boldness · defiance · audacity · chutzpah · swagger · vainglory · chest-puffing · empty threats
Add decorative elements
- overstateRepresent as greater
- inflateFill with gas
- hyperboleRhetorical extreme exaggeration
- dramatizeDepict with heightened emotion
magnify · amplify · stretch · overdraw · overplay · elaborate · color · aggrandize
Excessively inflated language
- grandiosePretentiously impressive in scale
- pretentiousFalsely grand or important
- highfalutinAffectedly superior or fancy
- pontificalDogmatically self-important
grandiloquent · magniloquent · turgid · flowery · florid · rhetorical · oratorical · declamatory
brag
Speak with excessive pride
swagger · rodomontade · braggadocio · grandstand · showboat · trumpet · flaunt · strut · puffery · blowhard
bluster
Loud, empty boasting
- machismoExcessive masculine pride
- posturingInsincere behavior for effect
- swashbucklingFlamboyantly daring and heroic
cockiness · boldness · defiance · audacity · chutzpah · swagger · vainglory · chest-puffing · empty threats · tough talk
embellish
Add decorative elements
dramatize · magnify · amplify · stretch · overdraw · overplay · elaborate · color · aggrandize · tall tale
bombastic
Excessively inflated language
- grandiosePretentiously impressive in scale
- pretentiousFalsely grand or important
- highfalutinAffectedly superior or fancy
pontifical · grandiloquent · magniloquent · turgid · flowery · florid · rhetorical · oratorical · declamatory · fustian
gasconademodesty
Absence of vanity
humility · self-deprecation · understatement · self-effacement · diffidence