boastful

«boastful» in Mova's school dictionary: Talking too proudly about yourself, your skills or your… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (boastful, more boastful, most boastful)

meaning for a pupil

Talking too proudly about yourself, your skills or your things, so that others feel you are showing off. tree →

sense 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 →
• Don't be boastful when you win. tree →
• He was boastful about his new trainers. tree →
• Her boastful talk annoyed the team. tree →
• A good winner is not boastful. tree →
• The boastful knight claimed he had slain ten dragons. tree →
• He played the boastful soldier, and the merry smith, and he had comrades and boon-companions in plenty. tree →

note

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

In the corpora

• He's kind and good-natured — though perhaps not very clever, and rather boastful and conceited.
• Perhaps he's not very clever ... and it may be that he is both boastful and conceited.»
• Conceited = thinks too much of himself; boastful = always showing off about what he has or does.
• 1 Corinthians 13 says love is patient and kind, and not jealous, boastful, proud or rude.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «boastful» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.