brag

1 of 3

noun

ˈbrag

: a pompous or boastful statement

: arrogant talk or manner : cockiness

: braggart

brag

2 of 3

verb

bragged; bragging

intransitive verb

: to talk boastfully

always bragging about his success

transitive verb

: to assert boastfully

bragged that she was the faster runner on her team

bragger

ˈbra-gər

noun

braggy

ˈbra-gē

adjective

brag

3 of 3

adjective

bragger; braggest

: first-rate

Synonyms

Noun

bluster
bombast
braggadocio
bull [slang]
cockalorum
fanfaronade
gas
gasconade
grandiloquence
hot air
magniloquence
rant
rodomontade
rhodomontade

Verb

blow
boast
bull [slang]
crow
gasconade
swagger
vapor
vaunt

Adjective

A-OK
A1
awesome
bang-up
banner
beautiful
blue-chip
blue-ribbon
boffo
bonny [chiefly British]
bonnie
boss [slang]
brave
bully
bumper
capital
choice
classic
cool [slang]
corking
crackerjack
cracking
dandy
divine
dope [slang]
down [slang]
dynamite
excellent
fab
fabulous
famous
fantabulous [slang]
fantastic
fine
first-class
first-rate
first-string
five-star
four-star
frontline
gangbusters
gangbuster
gilt-edged
gilt-edge
gone [slang]
grand
great
groovy
heavenly
high-class
hot
hype [slang]
immense
jim-dandy
keen
lovely
marvelous
marvellous
mean
neat
nifty
noble
number one
No. 1
numero uno
out-of-sight [slang]
par excellence
peachy
peachy keen
phat [slang]
prime
primo [slang]
prize
prizewinning
quality
radical [slang]
righteous [slang]
sensational
slick
splendid
stellar
sterling
superb
superior
superlative
supernal
swell
terrific
tip-top
top
top-notch
top-of-the-line
top-shelf
topflight
topping [chiefly British]
unsurpassed
wizard [chiefly British]
wonderful

See all Synonyms & Antonyms

Example Sentences

Noun for all his brag about diving, he actually does very little he's an irritating brag whose sense of selfhood is defined by what he owns Verb After winning the race, she couldn't stop bragging. “I don't mean to brag,” he said, “but I'm an excellent cook.” He bragged that his daughter was the best student in her class. “I'm the fastest runner on the team,” she bragged. Adjective he did a really brag job on restoring that classic car See More

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

Blanco is married and childless, but his paternalistic brag is that the company is his family.

Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2022 The most-coveted, bestselling, and top-rated (no brag) hot rollers from BaByliss are on sale now for Amazon Prime Day.

ELLE, 13 July 2022 While still plenty explicit, We Can’t Be Stopped served as another huge posture-shift for the group, eschewing rap’s typical boast-and-brag for the blues tradition of lamenting trauma caused by loose living.

Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 28 June 2022 Quickly, though, the GeoGuessr video became about high scores—somewhere between a brag and, for a passionate and skeptical online community, proof.

Max Norman, The New Yorker, 24 June 2022 The real question, though, is whether the town is ready for the inevitable influx of tourists and art lovers in search of their next geotag brag.

Leena Kim, Town & Country, 14 June 2022 No child has ever read faster, which is not a brag.

Elinor Lipman, Washington Post, 26 May 2022 Overnight a copy of your résumé with something clever, funny or interesting—photoshop yourself into a team photo, send your brag book, create a QR code with an introduction video or solve a problem, for example—make an effort.

Expert Panel®, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022 Bob McKillop, legendary coach of the giant-killing Davidson basketball team, slid a humble brag into his post-game words after his team’s 79-78 upset of No.10 Alabama.

Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 22 Dec. 2021

Verb

CoffeeAndMilk Not to brag or anything, but my lips take up a decent amount of real estate on my face.

Tatjana Freund, ELLE, 30 Aug. 2022 Just to brag a little bit about something, there’s a program called PGA Create that just started this year that Google helped finance.

Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Aug. 2022 These are the same people who work extra hard to ensure others are aware of their vast knowledge base, using every opportunity to brag.

Amy Blaschka, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022 To just love your body, any shape color form, its your body, love it, show it off, brag about it.

Stephen Daw, Billboard, 28 June 2022 And, as if that wasn't enough, Guttman as a finance major can brag on his grandfather's business acumen.

Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 17 June 2022 Armed with a rigorous ranking system, investors could make smarter decisions based on firms’ data practices: A VC fund might brag about only backing firms with Gold or better ratings, for instance.

Yacov Salomon, Forbes, 5 May 2022 Lance Leipold wasn’t going to going to brag on that win without a little coercion.

Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 14 July 2022 White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre took to Twitter to brag about falling gas prices while blasting oil refiners for making profits Thursday.

Lindsay Kornick, Fox News, 22 July 2022

Adjective

This will also give you a brag bank to pull from when the interviewer asks you to articulate your strengths.

Dominique Law, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021 The Wild Insulated Water Bottle Allow us to humble-brag about The Wild water bottle with the cool logo of the L.A. Times newsletter about the outdoors in Southern California.

Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2021 Extremely familiar forays into bass-heavy brag rap, whooshing R&B, and Afrobeats break up the slog.

Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2021 Lays down brag-worthy numbers, draws every eye, amazing value.

K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 2 Sep. 2020 See More

brag 1 of 3

adjective

as in awesome

of the very best kind he did a really brag job on restoring that classic car

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance

awesome
great
wonderful
excellent
terrific
lovely
fabulous
beautiful
fantastic
stellar
superb
marvelous
fine
prime
mean
hot
cool
quality
famous
neat
brave
prize
sensational
marvellous
grand
cracking
bully
swell
superlative
superior
keen
slick
classic
top
good
heavenly
choice
splendid
banner
dandy
dope
nifty
exceptional
boss
divine
hype
unsurpassed
par excellence
fab
prizewinning
noble
peachy
topping
groovy
number one
immense
gone
bumper
gangbusters
capital
dynamite
sterling
crackerjack
too much
boffo
fantabulous
corking
primo
decent
better
bonny
righteous
down
phat
radical
topflight
gangbuster
special
wizard
bang-up
supernal
frontline
peachy keen
numero uno
high-class
five-star
fancy
top-of-the-line
first-class
first-rate
top-notch
top-shelf
satisfactory
acceptable
A-OK
tip-top
bonnie
blue-ribbon
gilt-edge
adequate
jim-dandy
four-star
all right
out of this world
select
out-of-sight
blue-chip
first-string
gilt-edged
A1
okay
tolerable
traditional
classical
premium
passable
OK
No. 1
standard
superfine
high-grade
high-test

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

pathetic
terrible
poor
awful
lousy
vile
wretched
rotten
bad
atrocious
inferior
execrable
unsatisfactory
substandard
mediocre
middling
low-grade
second-rate
second-class

brag

2 of 3

noun

as in rhetoric

boastful speech or writing for all his brag about diving, he actually does very little

Synonyms & Similar Words

rhetoric
braggadocio
rant
chatter
grandiloquence
hot air
magniloquence
bluster
bombast
fanfaronade
rodomontade
gasconade
bull
blab
gas
babble
prattle
rhodomontade
jawing
cockalorum
gabble
vaunt
jabber
rhapsody
prating
oratory
verbosity
pomposity
swagger
gibber
wind
turgidity
bloviation
yammering
windiness
gibberish
drivel
egotism
patter
self-conceit
self-importance

as in bragger

someone who boasts he's an irritating brag whose sense of selfhood is defined by what he owns

Synonyms & Similar Words

bragger
braggart
cock
boaster
swaggerer
blower
cracker
vaunter
gascon
braggadocio
blusterer
blowhard
gasconader
cockalorum
self-promoter
self-dramatizer
self-advertiser

brag

3 of 3

verb

as in to boast

to praise or express pride in one's own possessions, qualities, or accomplishments often to excess she bragged that she was richer than anyone else in the state

Synonyms & Similar Words

boast
display
crow
exhibit
vaunt
blow
pride
swagger
bull
vapor
gasconade
gush
blow smoke
bluster
flaunt
glory
puff
harangue
rejoice
expose
exult
maximize
parade
show off
glorify
brandish
magnify

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

minimize
belittle
diminish
discount
laugh off
underrate
undervalue
deprecate
pooh
pooh-pooh
regret
bemoan
lament
mourn
play down
shrug off

Synonym Chooser

Some common synonyms of brag are boast, crow, and vaunt. While all these words mean "to express pride in oneself or one's accomplishments," brag suggests crudity and artlessness in glorifying oneself.

bragging of their exploits

Although the words boast and brag have much in common, boast often suggests ostentation and exaggeration, but it may imply a claiming with proper and justifiable pride.

boasts of every trivial success

the town boasts one of the best museums in the area

In some situations, the words crow and brag are roughly equivalent. However, crow usually implies exultant boasting or bragging.

crowed after winning the championship

Vaunt usually connotes more pomp and bombast than boast and less crudity or naïveté than brag.

vaunted his country's military might

单词	brag
释义	brag 1 of 3 noun ˈbrag 1 : a pompous or boastful statement 2 : arrogant talk or manner : cockiness 3 : braggart brag 2 of 3 verb bragged; bragging intransitive verb : to talk boastfully always bragging about his success transitive verb : to assert boastfully bragged that she was the faster runner on her team bragger ˈbra-gər noun braggy ˈbra-gē adjective brag 3 of 3 adjective bragger; braggest : first-rate Synonyms Noun bluster bombast braggadocio bull [slang] cockalorum fanfaronade gas gasconade grandiloquence hot air magniloquence rant rodomontade rhodomontade Verb blow boast bull [slang] crow gasconade swagger vapor vaunt Adjective A-OK A1 awesome bang-up banner beautiful blue-chip blue-ribbon boffo bonny [chiefly British] bonnie boss [slang] brave bully bumper capital choice classic cool [slang] corking crackerjack cracking dandy divine dope [slang] down [slang] dynamite excellent fab fabulous famous fantabulous [slang] fantastic fine first-class first-rate first-string five-star four-star frontline gangbusters gangbuster gilt-edged gilt-edge gone [slang] grand great groovy heavenly high-class hot hype [slang] immense jim-dandy keen lovely marvelous marvellous mean neat nifty noble number one No. 1 numero uno out-of-sight [slang] par excellence peachy peachy keen phat [slang] prime primo [slang] prize prizewinning quality radical [slang] righteous [slang] sensational slick splendid stellar sterling superb superior superlative supernal swell terrific tip-top top top-notch top-of-the-line top-shelf topflight topping [chiefly British] unsurpassed wizard [chiefly British] wonderful See all Synonyms & Antonyms Example Sentences Noun for all his brag about diving, he actually does very little he's an irritating brag whose sense of selfhood is defined by what he owns Verb After winning the race, she couldn't stop bragging. “I don't mean to brag,” he said, “but I'm an excellent cook.” He bragged that his daughter was the best student in her class. “I'm the fastest runner on the team,” she bragged. Adjective he did a really brag job on restoring that classic car See More Recent Examples on the Web Noun Blanco is married and childless, but his paternalistic brag is that the company is his family. Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2022 The most-coveted, bestselling, and top-rated (no brag) hot rollers from BaByliss are on sale now for Amazon Prime Day. ELLE, 13 July 2022 While still plenty explicit, We Can’t Be Stopped served as another huge posture-shift for the group, eschewing rap’s typical boast-and-brag for the blues tradition of lamenting trauma caused by loose living. Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 28 June 2022 Quickly, though, the GeoGuessr video became about high scores—somewhere between a brag and, for a passionate and skeptical online community, proof. Max Norman, The New Yorker, 24 June 2022 The real question, though, is whether the town is ready for the inevitable influx of tourists and art lovers in search of their next geotag brag. Leena Kim, Town & Country, 14 June 2022 No child has ever read faster, which is not a brag. Elinor Lipman, Washington Post, 26 May 2022 Overnight a copy of your résumé with something clever, funny or interesting—photoshop yourself into a team photo, send your brag book, create a QR code with an introduction video or solve a problem, for example—make an effort. Expert Panel®, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022 Bob McKillop, legendary coach of the giant-killing Davidson basketball team, slid a humble brag into his post-game words after his team’s 79-78 upset of No.10 Alabama. Joseph Goodman \| Jgoodman@al.com, al, 22 Dec. 2021 Verb CoffeeAndMilk Not to brag or anything, but my lips take up a decent amount of real estate on my face. Tatjana Freund, ELLE, 30 Aug. 2022 Just to brag a little bit about something, there’s a program called PGA Create that just started this year that Google helped finance. Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Aug. 2022 These are the same people who work extra hard to ensure others are aware of their vast knowledge base, using every opportunity to brag. Amy Blaschka, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022 To just love your body, any shape color form, its your body, love it, show it off, brag about it. Stephen Daw, Billboard, 28 June 2022 And, as if that wasn't enough, Guttman as a finance major can brag on his grandfather's business acumen. Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 17 June 2022 Armed with a rigorous ranking system, investors could make smarter decisions based on firms’ data practices: A VC fund might brag about only backing firms with Gold or better ratings, for instance. Yacov Salomon, Forbes, 5 May 2022 Lance Leipold wasn’t going to going to brag on that win without a little coercion. Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 14 July 2022 White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre took to Twitter to brag about falling gas prices while blasting oil refiners for making profits Thursday. Lindsay Kornick, Fox News, 22 July 2022 Adjective This will also give you a brag bank to pull from when the interviewer asks you to articulate your strengths. Dominique Law, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021 The Wild Insulated Water Bottle Allow us to humble-brag about The Wild water bottle with the cool logo of the L.A. Times newsletter about the outdoors in Southern California. Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2021 Extremely familiar forays into bass-heavy brag rap, whooshing R&B, and Afrobeats break up the slog. Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2021 Lays down brag-worthy numbers, draws every eye, amazing value. K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 2 Sep. 2020 See More Word History Etymology Noun Middle English, "ostentation, presumption," perhaps noun derivative of earlier brag, "ostentatious, spirited," of obscure origin Verb Middle English braggen, noun derivative of brag brag entry 1 Adjective probably adjectival derivative of brag entry 1 or brag entry 2 First Known Use Noun 14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2 Verb 14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense Adjective 1836, in the meaning defined above Phrases Containing brag humble-brag humble-brag Kids Definition brag verb ˈbrag bragged; bragging : to speak in a way that shows too much pride : boast She bragged about all the awards she'd won. brag 1 of 3 adjective as in awesome of the very best kind he did a really brag job on restoring that classic car Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance awesome great wonderful excellent terrific lovely fabulous beautiful fantastic stellar superb marvelous fine prime mean hot cool quality famous neat brave prize sensational marvellous grand cracking bully swell superlative superior keen slick classic top good heavenly choice splendid banner dandy dope nifty exceptional boss divine hype unsurpassed par excellence fab prizewinning noble peachy topping groovy number one immense gone bumper gangbusters capital dynamite sterling crackerjack too much boffo fantabulous corking primo decent better bonny righteous down phat radical topflight gangbuster special wizard bang-up supernal frontline peachy keen numero uno high-class five-star fancy top-of-the-line first-class first-rate top-notch top-shelf satisfactory acceptable A-OK tip-top bonnie blue-ribbon gilt-edge adequate jim-dandy four-star all right out of this world select out-of-sight blue-chip first-string gilt-edged A1 okay tolerable traditional classical premium passable OK No. 1 standard superfine high-grade high-test Antonyms & Near Antonyms pathetic terrible poor awful lousy vile wretched rotten bad atrocious inferior execrable unsatisfactory substandard mediocre middling low-grade second-rate second-class See More brag 2 of 3 noun 1 as in rhetoric boastful speech or writing for all his brag about diving, he actually does very little Synonyms & Similar Words rhetoric braggadocio rant chatter grandiloquence hot air magniloquence bluster bombast fanfaronade rodomontade gasconade bull blab gas babble prattle rhodomontade jawing cockalorum gabble vaunt jabber rhapsody prating oratory verbosity pomposity swagger gibber wind turgidity bloviation yammering windiness gibberish drivel egotism patter self-conceit self-importance 2 as in bragger someone who boasts he's an irritating brag whose sense of selfhood is defined by what he owns Synonyms & Similar Words bragger braggart cock boaster swaggerer blower cracker vaunter gascon braggadocio blusterer blowhard gasconader cockalorum self-promoter self-dramatizer self-advertiser brag 3 of 3 verb as in to boast to praise or express pride in one's own possessions, qualities, or accomplishments often to excess she bragged that she was richer than anyone else in the state Synonyms & Similar Words boast display crow exhibit vaunt blow pride swagger bull vapor gasconade gush blow smoke bluster flaunt glory puff harangue rejoice expose exult maximize parade show off glorify brandish magnify Antonyms & Near Antonyms minimize belittle diminish discount laugh off underrate undervalue deprecate pooh pooh-pooh regret bemoan lament mourn play down shrug off See More Synonym Chooser Some common synonyms of brag are boast, crow, and vaunt. While all these words mean "to express pride in oneself or one's accomplishments," brag suggests crudity and artlessness in glorifying oneself. bragging of their exploits Although the words boast and brag have much in common, boast often suggests ostentation and exaggeration, but it may imply a claiming with proper and justifiable pride. boasts of every trivial success the town boasts one of the best museums in the area In some situations, the words crow and brag are roughly equivalent. However, crow usually implies exultant boasting or bragging. crowed after winning the championship Vaunt usually connotes more pomp and bombast than boast and less crudity or naïveté than brag. vaunted his country's military might
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