Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

boastful

/ˈbəʊstfʊl/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.50 in modern English

Syllables: boast-ful
IPA: /ˈbəʊstfʊl/

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Tending to boast or brag.

Example Sentences

"He wrote a boastful autobiography, recording all his great deeds."
"It makes one's blood boil, yet heart tremble, to think that we Englishmen and our American descendants, with their boastful cry of liberty, have been and are so guilty"

Etymology

From Middle English bostful, equivalent to boast + -ful.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: bostful
Suffix: boast

Inflected Forms

more boastful (comparative) most boastful (superlative) boastfull (alternative, archaic)

Derived Forms

boastfully boastfulness overboastful unboastful

Frequently Paired Words

cocky proud bravado braggart verbose

Synonyms

boastful bragging crowing gasconade glorious spread-eagle swaggering thrasonic thrasonical vaunting

Antonyms

humble modest quiet shy silent

Questions

How do you pronounce boastful?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈbəʊstfʊl/.
What does boastful mean?: Tending to boast or brag.
Where does boastful come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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