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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boastful/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boastful/#x1)
- Don't be boastful when you win. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boastful/#x2)
- He was boastful about his new trainers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boastful/#x3)
- Her boastful talk annoyed the team. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boastful/#x4)
- A good winner is not boastful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boastful/#x5)
- The boastful knight claimed he had slain ten dragons. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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.

### In the corpora

- [He's kind and good-natured — though perhaps not very clever, and rather boastful and conceited.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/29-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall/7/)
- [Perhaps he's not very clever ... and it may be that he is both boastful and conceited.»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/29-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall/24/)
- [Conceited = thinks too much of himself; boastful = always showing off about what he has or does.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/29-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall/26/)
- [1 Corinthians 13 says love is patient and kind, and not jealous, boastful, proud or rude.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/20-paul-his-letters-and-the-way-of-love/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «boastful» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/boastful/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.