Definitions for boastful

boastful boast·ful

Spelling: [bohst-fuh l]
IPA: /ˈboʊst fəl/

Boastful is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 330 anagrams from letters in boastful (abflostu).

Definitions for boastful

adjective

  1. given to or characterized by boasting.

Origin of boastful

First recorded in 1275-1325, boastful is from the Middle English word bostful. See boast1, -ful

Examples for boastful

His boastful accents died away into a mumble: "Dunno what I should do."

False and boastful conceits and phrases mount upwards and take their place.

"Unaided I walked here from the house," he informed her with a boastful air.

On video, Raymond Santana was smug, boastful, and nonchalant by turns, vividly reenacting who did what during the rape.

“I am a night cabby, I am,” he whispered, with a sort of boastful exasperation.

He then regales them, boastful without even the sheen of a humblebrag, with tales of his glittering political career.

He turned to the father, and spoke with an air of boastful good nature.

Olson, not only a cruel but also a boastful man, narrated to Peter the story of his horrific crimes.

But he couldn't resist adding that it was "difficult to sing," and that "its sentiments are boastful and bloodthirsty."

Now in GOP circles there is boastful talk of Romney “expanding the map” into New Jersey and Michigan and Oregon.

Word Value for boastful
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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