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# boastful

adjective (boastful, more boastful, most boastful)

«boastful» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Talking too proudly about yourself, your skills or your things, so that others feel you are showing off. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boastful/#m1)

### In the lessons

In stories and lessons about character: the boastful hare in "The Tortoise and the Hare". In everyday life: nobody likes a boastful winner. Phrases: boastful about, boastful talk.

### Examples

- The boastful hare lost the race to the tortoise. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boastful/#x1)
- Don't be boastful when you win. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boastful/#x2)
- He was boastful about his new trainers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boastful/#x3)
- Her boastful talk annoyed the team. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boastful/#x4)
- A good winner is not boastful. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boastful/#x5)
- The boastful knight claimed he had slain ten dragons. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boastful/#x6)
- He played the boastful soldier, and the merry smith, and he had comrades and boon-companions in plenty. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boastful/#x7)

### Note

Verb and noun: boast. Synonyms: big-headed (UK), cocky (informal), show-off. Opposite: modest, humble.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «boastful» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boastful/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«boastful» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/boastful.html) on Mova free.