That man is too boastful for my liking.
Source: tatoeba (68114)
Boastful
//ˈbəʊstfʊl//
Synonyms for "boastful" (72 found)
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Related words (36)
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49 translations across 27 languages.
Azerbaijani
1 entries- lovğa adj (tending to boast or brag)
Bulgarian
1 entries- самохвален adj (tending to boast or brag)
Catalan
2 entries- fanfarró adj (tending to boast or brag)
- vanagloriós adj (tending to boast or brag)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 自誇的 /自夸的 adj (tending to boast or brag)
Finnish
2 entries- leuhka adj (tending to boast or brag)
- öykkärimäinen adj (tending to boast or brag)
French
2 entries- fanfaron adj (tending to boast or brag)
- vantard adj (tending to boast or brag)
Galician
2 entries- borreante adj (tending to boast or brag)
- fachendoso adj (tending to boast or brag)
German
2 entries- prahlerisch adj (tending to boast or brag)
- stolz adj (tending to boast or brag)
Hungarian
3 entries- dicsekvő adj (tending to boast or brag)
- hencegő adj (tending to boast or brag)
- kérkedő adj (tending to boast or brag)
Irish
2 entries- mórfhoclach adj (tending to boast or brag)
- mórtasach adj (tending to boast or brag)
Japanese
2 entries- 自慢する adj (tending to boast or brag)
- 自慢に満ちた adj (tending to boast or brag)
Kapampangan
2 entries- mapangaya adj (tending to boast or brag)
- mapañgaia adj (tending to boast or brag)
Latin
1 entries- iactans adj (tending to boast or brag)
Latvian
1 entries- lielīgs adj (tending to boast or brag)
Macedonian
1 entries- фалба́џиски adj (tending to boast or brag)
Mongolian
1 entries- бардам adj (tending to boast or brag)
Māori
1 entries- pākiwaha adj (tending to boast or brag)
Plautdietsch
2 entries- grootfrätich adj (tending to boast or brag)
- puchsch adj (tending to boast or brag)
Portuguese
1 entries- orgulhoso adj (tending to boast or brag)
Russian
2 entries- го́рдый adj (tending to boast or brag)
- хвастли́вый adj (tending to boast or brag)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- bragail adj (tending to boast or brag)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- hvalisav adj (tending to boast or brag)
- samohvalisav adj (tending to boast or brag)
- самохвалисав adj (tending to boast or brag)
- хвалисав adj (tending to boast or brag)
Spanish
4 entries- comemierda adj (tending to boast or brag)
- echón adj (tending to boast or brag)
- fachendoso presuntuoso adj (tending to boast or brag)
- fanfarrón adj (tending to boast or brag)
Swedish
1 entries- skrytsam adj (tending to boast or brag)
Tagalog
3 entries- hambog adj (tending to boast or brag)
- mahangin adj (tending to boast or brag)
- pasikat adj (tending to boast or brag)
Turkish
1 entries- övüngen adj (tending to boast or brag)
Yakut
1 entries- бардам adj (tending to boast or brag)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
I'm always bored with his boastful talk.
Source: tatoeba (253159)
Hero as he was, he was not boastful.
Source: tatoeba (294076)
He is boastful of his success.
Source: tatoeba (298796)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.