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- boastful
collapse - exhibiting self-importance; "big talk" related words >
- Gascon,
- arrogant,
- boasting,
- braggart,
- bragging,
- cock-a-hoop,
- conceited,
- egotistical,
- exultant,
- fanfaron,
- fanfaronading,
- gasconading,
- haughty,
- ostentatious,
- pretentious,
- proud,
- rodomontade,
- self-advertising,
- self-aggrandizing,
- self-applauding,
- self-flattering,
- self-glorious,
- self-lauding,
- self-vaunting,
- show-off,
- swelled-headed,
- thrasonic,
- thrasonical,
- vain,
- vainglorious,
- vaporing,
- vaunting
- Gascon,
- bluster,
- boast,
- boastful,
- boastfulness,
- boasting,
- bombast,
- brag,
- braggadocio,
- braggart,
- braggartism,
- bravado,
- conceit,
- conceited,
- fanfaron,
- fanfaronade,
- fanfaronading,
- gasconade,
- gasconading,
- gasconism,
- heroics,
- jactation,
- jactitation,
- rodomontade,
- self-advertising,
- self-applauding,
- self-flattering,
- self-glorious,
- self-lauding,
- self-vaunting,
- side,
- swagger,
- thrasonic,
- thrasonical,
- vain,
- vainglorious,
- vanity,
- vaporing,
- vaunt,
- vauntery,
- vaunting
- Gascon,
- boastful,
- boasting,
- braggart,
- bragging,
- complacent,
- conceited,
- consequential,
- disdainful,
- fanfaron,
- fanfaronading,
- gasconading,
- insolent,
- narcissan,
- narcissine,
- narcissistic,
- narcistic,
- overproud,
- overweening,
- self-admiring,
- self-advertising,
- self-applauding,
- self-approving,
- self-assuming,
- self-complacent,
- self-conceited,
- self-congratulating,
- self-congratulatory,
- self-content,
- self-contented,
- self-delighting,
- self-endeared,
- self-esteeming,
- self-flattering,
- self-glorious,
- self-gratulating,
- self-gratulatory,
- self-important,
- self-lauding,
- self-loving,
- self-respecting,
- self-satisfied,
- self-sufficient,
- self-vaunting,
- smug,
- stuck-up,
- supercilious,
- thrasonic,
- thrasonical,
- vain,
- vaporing,
- vaunting
- conceited
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- characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance; "a conceited fool"; "an attitude of self-conceited arrogance"; "an egotistical disregard of others"; "so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty"; "growing ever more swollen-headed and arbitrary"; "vain about her clothes" related words >
- Gascon,
- aggressively self-confident,
- arrogant,
- biggety,
- boastful,
- boasting,
- braggart,
- bragging,
- bumptious,
- chesty,
- cocky,
- complacent,
- coxcombical,
- dandified,
- dandy,
- egocentric,
- egotistical,
- fanfaron,
- fanfaronading,
- foppish,
- gasconading,
- haughty,
- immodest,
- know-it-all,
- narcissistic,
- obtrusive,
- overwise,
- peacockish,
- peacocky,
- perk,
- perky,
- pert,
- prideful,
- proud,
- puffed up,
- self,
- self-admiring,
- self-advertising,
- self-applauding,
- self-conceited,
- self-flattering,
- self-glorious,
- self-important,
- self-lauding,
- self-opinionated,
- self-satisfied,
- self-vaunting,
- smart-alecky,
- smug,
- snobbish,
- snotty,
- stuck-up,
- swelled-headed,
- thrasonic,
- thrasonical,
- vain,
- vainglorious,
- vaporing,
- vaunting
- Captain Bobadil,
- Gascon,
- Herod,
- Narcissus,
- Scaramouch,
- Texan,
- big mouth,
- blatherskite,
- blower,
- blowhard,
- bluff,
- bluffer,
- blusterer,
- boaster,
- boastful,
- boasting,
- brag,
- braggadocio,
- bragging,
- bravo,
- bucko,
- bully,
- bullyboy,
- conceited,
- egocentric,
- egoist,
- egotist,
- fanfaron,
- fanfaronading,
- gasbag,
- gasconader,
- gasconading,
- hector,
- hectorer,
- hot-air artist,
- individualist,
- know-it-all,
- loudmouth,
- miles gloriosus,
- narcissist,
- narcist,
- no modest violet,
- peacock,
- ranter,
- raver,
- rodomontade,
- roisterer,
- self-advertising,
- self-applauding,
- self-flattering,
- self-glorious,
- self-lauding,
- self-vaunting,
- show-off,
- smart aleck,
- swaggerer,
- swashbuckler,
- swasher,
- swellhead,
- thrasonic,
- thrasonical,
- vain,
- vainglorious,
- vaporer,
- vaporing,
- vaunting,
- windbag,
- windjammer,
- windy
- heroics
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- ostentatious or vainglorious or extravagant or melodramatic conduct; "heroics are for those epic films they make in Hollywood" related words >
- bluster,
- boast,
- boastfulness,
- boasting,
- bombast,
- brag,
- braggadocio,
- braggartism,
- bragging,
- brashness,
- brass,
- bravado,
- brazen boldness,
- cheek,
- chutzpah,
- conceit,
- fanfaronade,
- gall,
- gasconade,
- gasconism,
- hubris,
- improvidence,
- imprudence,
- impudence,
- indiscretion,
- injudiciousness,
- insolence,
- jactation,
- jactitation,
- overboldness,
- overcarelessness,
- overconfidence,
- oversureness,
- overweeningness,
- rashness,
- rodomontade,
- side,
- swagger,
- temerariousness,
- temerity,
- unchariness,
- unwariness,
- vanity,
- vaunt,
- vauntery,
- vaunting
- jactitation
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- (pathology) extremely restless tossing and twitching usually by a person with a severe illness
- (law) a false boast that can harm others; especially a false claim to be married to someone (formerly actionable at law) related words >
- ague,
- bluster,
- boast,
- boastfulness,
- boasting,
- bombast,
- brag,
- braggadocio,
- braggartism,
- bragging,
- bravado,
- bumpiness,
- chattering,
- chorea,
- cold shivers,
- conceit,
- fanfaronade,
- fits and starts,
- gasconade,
- gasconism,
- heroics,
- jactation,
- jerkiness,
- joltiness,
- palsy,
- quaking,
- quavering,
- quivering,
- rodomontade,
- shakes,
- shaking,
- shivering,
- shivers,
- shuddering,
- side,
- spasms,
- succussion,
- swagger,
- trembling,
- tremulousness,
- vanity,
- vaunt,
- vauntery,
- vaunting,
- vibration
- acquisitive,
- ambitious for self,
- autistic,
- boastful,
- boasting,
- bragging,
- careerist,
- conceited,
- crowing,
- egocentric,
- egocentristic,
- egoistic,
- egotistic,
- grasping,
- greedy,
- individualistic,
- narcissan,
- narcissine,
- narcissistic,
- narcistic,
- overweening,
- personalistic,
- possessive,
- privatistic,
- proud,
- remote,
- self-absorbed,
- self-admiring,
- self-advancing,
- self-besot,
- self-centered,
- self-considerative,
- self-contained,
- self-devoted,
- self-esteeming,
- self-indulgent,
- self-interested,
- self-jealous,
- self-occupied,
- self-pleasing,
- self-seeking,
- self-serving,
- self-sufficient,
- selfish,
- swelled-headed,
- vain,
- vainglorious,
- vaunting
- amour-propre,
- arrogance,
- autoeroticism,
- boastfulness,
- bombast,
- complacency,
- consequentiality,
- ego trip,
- egoism,
- egotism,
- exhibition,
- flaunting,
- haughtiness,
- narcism,
- narcissism,
- overproudness,
- overweening pride,
- pride,
- self-admiration,
- self-advertisement,
- self-advertising,
- self-applause,
- self-approbation,
- self-complacency,
- self-congratulation,
- self-consequence,
- self-content,
- self-delight,
- self-endearment,
- self-esteem,
- self-glorification,
- self-gratulation,
- self-importance,
- self-infatuation,
- self-laudation,
- self-love,
- self-praise,
- self-respect,
- self-satisfaction,
- self-sufficiency,
- self-vaunting,
- self-worship,
- smugness,
- vaingloriousness,
- vainness,
- vanity
- ambitious,
- capillary,
- cirrose,
- cirrous,
- classy,
- downy,
- fancy,
- feathery,
- fibered,
- fibroid,
- fibrous,
- flagelliform,
- fleecy,
- fluffy,
- funicular,
- furry,
- fuzzy,
- gossamery,
- hairlike,
- hairy,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-toned,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- hirsute,
- lanate,
- ligamental,
- lofty,
- nappy,
- ostentatious,
- peachy,
- pinnate,
- pretentious,
- pubescent,
- ropy,
- silky,
- stringy,
- taeniate,
- taeniform,
- threadlike,
- thready,
- tony,
- vaunting,
- velvety,
- wiry,
- woolly
- Gascon,
- abortive,
- absurd,
- airy,
- arrogant,
- asinine,
- barren,
- baseless,
- boastful,
- boasting,
- bootless,
- bootlessly,
- braggart,
- bragging,
- catchpenny,
- cocky,
- complacent,
- conceited,
- consequential,
- counterproductive,
- coxcombical,
- dandyish,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- doomed,
- effete,
- egocentric,
- egoistic,
- egotistical,
- empty,
- etiolated,
- fanfaron,
- fanfaronading,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- feckless,
- flimsy,
- foolish,
- foppish,
- foredoomed,
- fribble,
- fribbling,
- frivolous,
- frothy,
- fruitless,
- fruitlessly,
- futile,
- futilely,
- gasconading,
- groundless,
- haughty,
- hollow,
- idle,
- ill-founded,
- improperly,
- in vain,
- inadequate,
- inane,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- inoperative,
- invalid,
- light,
- misleading,
- narcissan,
- narcissine,
- narcissistic,
- narcistic,
- nugacious,
- nugatory,
- of no force,
- otiose,
- overproud,
- overweening,
- paltry,
- petty,
- pointless,
- profitless,
- proud,
- puny,
- self-admiring,
- self-advertising,
- self-applauding,
- self-approving,
- self-assuming,
- self-complacent,
- self-conceited,
- self-congratulating,
- self-congratulatory,
- self-content,
- self-contented,
- self-delighting,
- self-endeared,
- self-esteeming,
- self-flattering,
- self-glorious,
- self-gratulating,
- self-gratulatory,
- self-important,
- self-lauding,
- self-loving,
- self-respecting,
- self-satisfied,
- self-sufficient,
- self-vaunting,
- shallow,
- silly,
- slender,
- slight,
- smug,
- sterile,
- stuck-up,
- superficial,
- thrasonic,
- thrasonical,
- trifling,
- trite,
- trivial,
- unavailable,
- unavailing,
- unbased,
- unfounded,
- ungrounded,
- unproductive,
- unprofitable,
- unsuccessful,
- unsuccessfully,
- unsupportable,
- unsupported,
- unsustainable,
- unsustained,
- untenable,
- unwarranted,
- useless,
- vacuous,
- vainglorious,
- vainly,
- valueless,
- vapid,
- vaporing,
- vaunting,
- void,
- windy,
- without basis,
- without foundation,
- worthless
- classy
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- elegant and fashionable; "classy clothes"; "a classy dame"; "a posh restaurant"; "a swish pastry shop on the Rue du Bac"- Julia Child related words >
- ambitious,
- braw,
- chic,
- clothes-conscious,
- cosmopolitan,
- dapper,
- dashing,
- dressed to advantage,
- dressed to kill,
- elegant,
- exquisite,
- fancy,
- fashionable,
- flossy,
- genteel,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-toned,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- in,
- jaunty,
- lofty,
- modish,
- natty,
- neat,
- nifty,
- nobby,
- ostentatious,
- posh,
- pretentious,
- recherche,
- ritzy,
- sharp,
- sleek,
- smart,
- smug,
- snazzy,
- soigne,
- soignee,
- sophisticated,
- spiffy,
- spruce,
- style-conscious,
- swank,
- swanky,
- swell,
- swish,
- tony,
- tricksy,
- trig,
- trim,
- vaunting,
- well-dressed,
- well-groomed
- egotism
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- an exaggerated opinion of your own importance related words >
- acquisitiveness,
- arrogance,
- autism,
- boastfulness,
- boasting,
- bragging,
- careerism,
- conceit,
- conceitedness,
- contempt,
- ego,
- ego trip,
- egocentricity,
- egocentrism,
- egoism,
- egoisticalness,
- egotisticalness,
- gasconade,
- gasconism,
- graspingness,
- greed,
- individualism,
- interest,
- megalomania,
- narcissism,
- personal aims,
- personal ambition,
- personal desires,
- personalism,
- possessiveness,
- pride,
- privatism,
- remoteness,
- self-absorption,
- self-admiration,
- self-advancement,
- self-centeredness,
- self-centerment,
- self-consequence,
- self-consideration,
- self-containment,
- self-devotion,
- self-esteem,
- self-importance,
- self-indulgence,
- self-interest,
- self-interestedness,
- self-jealousy,
- self-love,
- self-occupation,
- self-pleasing,
- self-seeking,
- self-serving,
- self-solicitude,
- self-sufficiency,
- selfishness,
- selfism,
- superiority,
- vainglory,
- vainness,
- vaunting
- ambitious
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- having a strong desire for success or achievement
- requiring full use of your abilities or resources; "ambitious schedule"; "performed the most challenging task without a mistake" related words >
- adventuresome,
- adventurous,
- aggressive,
- anxious,
- aspiring,
- audacious,
- avaricious,
- avid,
- bold,
- careerist,
- careeristic,
- chimerical,
- classy,
- daring,
- driving,
- dynamic,
- eager,
- emulous,
- energetic,
- enterprising,
- enthusiastic,
- extravagant,
- fancy,
- flossy,
- forceful,
- go-ahead,
- grandiose,
- greedy,
- hard-working,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-reaching,
- high-toned,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- hopeful,
- hustling,
- impractical,
- indefatigable,
- keen,
- lofty,
- on the make,
- ostentatious,
- overambitious,
- overzealous,
- power-hungry,
- pretentious,
- pushful,
- pushing,
- pushy,
- sky-aspiring,
- social-climbing,
- tony,
- unrealistic,
- up-and-coming,
- utopian,
- vaulting,
- vaunting,
- venturesome,
- venturous,
- vigorous,
- visionary,
- yuppy,
- zealous
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- ambitious,
- aspiring,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- careerist,
- careeristic,
- classy,
- convoluted,
- declamatory,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- fancy,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- flossy,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-reaching,
- high-sounding,
- high-toned,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- inkhorn,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- on the make,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- power-hungry,
- pretentious,
- rhetorical,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- sky-aspiring,
- social-climbing,
- sonorous,
- stilted,
- tall,
- tony,
- tortuous,
- vaunting
- bravado
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- a swaggering show of courage related words >
- adventuresomeness,
- adventurousness,
- arrogance,
- audaciousness,
- audacity,
- balls,
- bluff,
- bluster,
- bluster and bluff,
- blustering,
- boast,
- boastfulness,
- boasting,
- bold front,
- boldness,
- bombast,
- brag,
- braggadocio,
- braggartism,
- bragging,
- brash bearing,
- brashness,
- brassiness,
- bravura,
- brazenness,
- bullying,
- bumptiousness,
- bustle,
- cheekiness,
- cockiness,
- conceit,
- contempt,
- contemptuousness,
- daring,
- daringness,
- defial,
- defiance,
- defying,
- derision,
- derring-do,
- despite,
- disdain,
- disregard,
- enterprise,
- fanfaronade,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- foolhardiness,
- front,
- fuss,
- gasconade,
- gasconism,
- hectoring,
- heroics,
- impertinence,
- impudence,
- insolence,
- intimidation,
- jactation,
- jactitation,
- machismo,
- overboldness,
- pertness,
- pretentiousness,
- rant,
- rodomontade,
- sauciness,
- self-assurance,
- side,
- splutter,
- sputter,
- swagger,
- swashbucklery,
- vanity,
- vaunt,
- vauntery,
- vaunting,
- venturesomeness,
- venturousness
- brag
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- an instance of boastful talk; "his brag is worse than his fight"; "whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade" related words >
- Captain Bobadil,
- Gascon,
- Texan,
- big mouth,
- blow,
- blower,
- blowhard,
- bluff,
- bluster,
- bluster and bluff,
- blusterer,
- boast,
- boaster,
- boastfulness,
- boasting,
- bombast,
- bounce,
- braggadocio,
- braggart,
- braggartism,
- bragging,
- bravado,
- bully,
- cock-a-doodle-doo,
- conceit,
- crow,
- draw the longbow,
- fanfaron,
- fanfaronade,
- flourish,
- gasbag,
- gasconade,
- gasconader,
- gasconism,
- hector,
- heroics,
- hot-air artist,
- intimidate,
- jactation,
- jactitation,
- miles gloriosus,
- mouth,
- out-herod Herod,
- prate,
- puff,
- rage,
- rant,
- rave,
- rodomontade,
- roister,
- rollick,
- show off,
- side,
- slang,
- speak for Buncombe,
- splutter,
- sputter,
- storm,
- strut,
- swagger,
- swashbuckle,
- talk big,
- trumpet,
- vanity,
- vapor,
- vaunt,
- vauntery,
- vaunting,
- windbag,
- windjammer,
- windy
- vaunt
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- extravagant self-praise related words >
- advertise,
- air,
- blazon,
- blazon forth,
- blow,
- bluster,
- boast,
- boastfulness,
- boasting,
- bombast,
- brag,
- braggadocio,
- braggartism,
- bragging,
- brandish,
- bravado,
- bravura,
- brilliancy,
- cock-a-doodle-doo,
- conceit,
- crow,
- dangle,
- daring,
- dash,
- demonstrate,
- demonstration,
- display,
- dramatics,
- draw the longbow,
- eclat,
- emblazon,
- etalage,
- exhibit,
- exhibition,
- exhibitionism,
- false front,
- fanfaronade,
- figure,
- flair,
- flash,
- flaunt,
- flaunting,
- flourish,
- gasconade,
- gasconism,
- heroics,
- histrionics,
- hold up,
- jactation,
- jactitation,
- manifest,
- manifestation,
- mouth,
- pageant,
- pageantry,
- parade,
- prate,
- puff,
- put forth,
- put forward,
- rodomontade,
- sham,
- show,
- show off,
- showing-off,
- side,
- speak for Buncombe,
- spectacle,
- splash,
- splurge,
- sport,
- staginess,
- swagger,
- theatrics,
- trumpet,
- trumpet forth,
- vanity,
- vapor,
- vauntery,
- vaunting,
- wave
- boast
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- speaking of yourself in superlatives
- show off related words >
- aggrandize,
- be enfeoffed of,
- be possessed of,
- be seized of,
- blow,
- bluster,
- boastfulness,
- boasting,
- bombast,
- bounce,
- brag,
- braggadocio,
- braggartism,
- bragging,
- bravado,
- bully,
- catch,
- claim,
- cock-a-doodle-doo,
- command,
- conceit,
- crow,
- diamond,
- draw the longbow,
- ego-trip,
- enjoy,
- exalt,
- fanfaronade,
- fill,
- find,
- fish for compliments,
- flaunt,
- flourish,
- gasconade,
- gasconism,
- gem,
- glory,
- godsend,
- good thing,
- gush,
- have,
- have and hold,
- have in hand,
- have no self-doubt,
- have tenure of,
- heroics,
- hold,
- jactation,
- jactitation,
- jewel,
- know it all,
- mouth,
- occupy,
- parade,
- pearl,
- pique,
- plum,
- plume,
- possess,
- prate,
- preen,
- pride,
- pride and joy,
- prize,
- puff,
- quack,
- rodomontade,
- ruffle,
- show off,
- side,
- speak for Buncombe,
- squat,
- squat on,
- swagger,
- swash,
- swashbuckle,
- talk big,
- treasure,
- triumph,
- trophy,
- trouvaille,
- usucapt,
- vanity,
- vapor,
- vaunt,
- vauntery,
- vaunting,
- windfall,
- winner
- ostentatious
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- intended to attract notice and impress others; "an ostentatious sable coat"
- of a display that is tawdry or vulgar related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- ambitious,
- arabesque,
- baroque,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- boastful,
- braggart,
- busy,
- chichi,
- classy,
- convoluted,
- declamatory,
- elaborate,
- elegant,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- fancy,
- fine,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flash,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- florid,
- flossy,
- flowery,
- frilly,
- fulsome,
- fussy,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- high-toned,
- high-wrought,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- inkhorn,
- labored,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- luxuriant,
- luxurious,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- moresque,
- ornate,
- orotund,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overinvolved,
- overlabored,
- overworked,
- overwrought,
- peacockish,
- peacocky,
- pedantic,
- picturesque,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- pretty-pretty,
- rhetorical,
- rich,
- rococo,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- splashy,
- stilted,
- swank,
- tall,
- theatrical,
- tony,
- tortuous,
- vain,
- vainglorious,
- vaunting
- bombast
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- pompous or pretentious talk or writing related words >
- absurdity,
- amphigory,
- babble,
- babblement,
- balderdash,
- bibble-babble,
- blabber,
- blather,
- bluster,
- boast,
- boastfulness,
- boasting,
- bombastry,
- brag,
- braggadocio,
- braggartism,
- bragging,
- bravado,
- claptrap,
- conceit,
- double-talk,
- drivel,
- drool,
- fanfaronade,
- fiddle-faddle,
- fiddledeedee,
- flatulence,
- flummery,
- folderol,
- fudge,
- fustian,
- gabble,
- galimatias,
- gammon,
- gasconade,
- gasconism,
- gibber,
- gibberish,
- gibble-gabble,
- gobbledygook,
- grandiloquence,
- heroics,
- highfalutin,
- hocus-pocus,
- hot air,
- humbug,
- jabber,
- jactation,
- jactitation,
- jargon,
- lexiphanicism,
- magniloquence,
- mumbo jumbo,
- narrishkeit,
- niaiserie,
- nonsense,
- orotundity,
- pack of nonsense,
- palaver,
- prate,
- prattle,
- puffery,
- pyrotechnics,
- rant,
- rhapsody,
- rhetoric,
- rigamarole,
- rigmarole,
- rodomontade,
- rubbish,
- sesquipedality,
- show,
- side,
- skimble-skamble,
- stuff and nonsense,
- stultiloquence,
- swagger,
- trash,
- trumpery,
- tumidity,
- turgidity,
- twaddle,
- twattle,
- twiddle-twaddle,
- vanity,
- vaporing,
- vaunt,
- vauntery,
- vaunting,
- waffling
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- affected,
- ambitious,
- arrogant,
- aureate,
- bedizened,
- big,
- big-sounding,
- bombastic,
- classy,
- condescending,
- convoluted,
- declamatory,
- domineering,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- extravagant,
- fancy,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- florid,
- flossy,
- flowery,
- fulsome,
- fustian,
- garish,
- gassy,
- gaudy,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- haughty,
- high,
- high-faluting,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-headed,
- high-minded,
- high-nosed,
- high-sounding,
- high-swelling,
- high-toned,
- highfaluting,
- hoity-toity,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lexiphanicism,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- oratorical,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overbearing,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- patronizing,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- proud,
- purse-proud,
- rant,
- rhapsody,
- rhetoric,
- rhetorical,
- rodomontade,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- stilted,
- stuck-up,
- superior,
- swollen,
- tall,
- tony,
- toplofty,
- tortuous,
- uppish,
- uppity,
- upstage,
- vaunting,
- windy
- absurdity,
- amphigory,
- babble,
- babblement,
- balderdash,
- bibble-babble,
- blabber,
- blather,
- bluff,
- bluster,
- bluster and bluff,
- blustering,
- boast,
- boastfulness,
- boasting,
- bombast,
- bombastry,
- brag,
- braggadocio,
- braggartism,
- bragging,
- bravado,
- bullying,
- bustle,
- claptrap,
- conceit,
- double-talk,
- drivel,
- drool,
- fanfaronade,
- fiddle-faddle,
- fiddledeedee,
- flummery,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- folderol,
- fudge,
- fuss,
- fustian,
- gabble,
- galimatias,
- gammon,
- gasconade,
- gasconism,
- gibber,
- gibberish,
- gibble-gabble,
- gobbledygook,
- hectoring,
- heroics,
- highfalutin,
- hocus-pocus,
- hot air,
- humbug,
- intimidation,
- jabber,
- jactation,
- jactitation,
- jargon,
- mumbo jumbo,
- narrishkeit,
- niaiserie,
- nonsense,
- pack of nonsense,
- palaver,
- prate,
- prattle,
- rant,
- rigamarole,
- rigmarole,
- rubbish,
- side,
- skimble-skamble,
- splutter,
- sputter,
- stuff and nonsense,
- stultiloquence,
- swagger,
- swashbucklery,
- trash,
- trumpery,
- twaddle,
- twattle,
- twiddle-twaddle,
- vanity,
- vaporing,
- vaunt,
- vauntery,
- vaunting,
- waffling
- anniversaries,
- blazon,
- bluff,
- bluster,
- bluster and bluff,
- blustering,
- boast,
- boastfulness,
- boasting,
- bombast,
- brag,
- braggadocio,
- braggartism,
- bragging,
- bravado,
- bravura,
- brilliancy,
- bullying,
- bustle,
- celebrating,
- celebration,
- ceremony,
- commemoration,
- conceit,
- daring,
- dash,
- demonstration,
- display,
- dramatics,
- dressing ship,
- eclat,
- etalage,
- exhibition,
- exhibitionism,
- false front,
- fanfare,
- festivity,
- figure,
- flair,
- flaunt,
- flaunting,
- flourish,
- flourish of trumpets,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- fuss,
- gasconade,
- gasconism,
- hectoring,
- heroics,
- histrionics,
- holiday,
- intimidation,
- jactation,
- jactitation,
- jubilee,
- manifestation,
- marking the occasion,
- memorialization,
- memory,
- observance,
- ovation,
- pageant,
- pageantry,
- parade,
- rant,
- rejoicing,
- religious rites,
- remembrance,
- revel,
- rite,
- ritual observance,
- rodomontade,
- salute,
- salvo,
- sham,
- show,
- showing-off,
- side,
- solemn observance,
- solemnization,
- spectacle,
- splash,
- splurge,
- splutter,
- sputter,
- staginess,
- swagger,
- swashbucklery,
- testimonial,
- testimonial banquet,
- testimonial dinner,
- theatrics,
- toast,
- tribute,
- triumph,
- vanity,
- vaunt,
- vauntery,
- vaunting
- vanity
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- the quality of being valueless or futile; "he rejected the vanities of the world" related words >
- absurdity,
- aimlessness,
- amour propre,
- arrogance,
- autotheism,
- big deal,
- bluster,
- boast,
- boastfulness,
- boasting,
- bombast,
- bootlessness,
- brag,
- braggadocio,
- braggartism,
- bragging,
- bravado,
- cockiness,
- conceit,
- conceitedness,
- egotism,
- emptiness,
- face,
- fanfaronade,
- fatuity,
- fecklessness,
- flimsiness,
- folly,
- foolishness,
- frivolity,
- frivolousness,
- fruitlessness,
- futility,
- gasconade,
- gasconism,
- haughtiness,
- heroics,
- hollowness,
- idleness,
- impotence,
- inanity,
- independence,
- ineffectiveness,
- ineffectuality,
- inefficacy,
- jactation,
- jactitation,
- levity,
- lightness,
- meaninglessness,
- narcissism,
- nugacity,
- otiosity,
- pardonable pride,
- pointlessness,
- pride,
- pridefulness,
- profitlessness,
- proudness,
- purposelessness,
- purse-pride,
- rat race,
- rodomontade,
- self-admiration,
- self-conceit,
- self-confidence,
- self-consequence,
- self-esteem,
- self-importance,
- self-love,
- self-reliance,
- self-respect,
- self-sufficiency,
- self-worship,
- shallowness,
- side,
- silliness,
- slenderness,
- slightness,
- stiff-necked pride,
- stiff-neckedness,
- superficiality,
- swagger,
- the absurd,
- triflingness,
- triteness,
- triviality,
- trivialness,
- unproductiveness,
- unprofitability,
- unprofitableness,
- unreality,
- uselessness,
- vacuity,
- vacuousness,
- vainglory,
- vainness,
- valuelessness,
- vapidity,
- vaunt,
- vauntery,
- vaunting,
- vicious circle,
- worthlessness
- pretentious
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- making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition" related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Gongoristic,
- Johnsonian,
- Marinistic,
- affected,
- ambitious,
- arrogant,
- artificial,
- arty,
- aureate,
- bedizened,
- big,
- big-sounding,
- bombastic,
- chichi,
- classy,
- convoluted,
- declamatory,
- elaborate,
- elaborated,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- exaggerated,
- extravagant,
- fancy,
- feigned,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- flossy,
- flowery,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gassy,
- gaudy,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- haughty,
- high and mighty,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-hat,
- high-sounding,
- high-swelling,
- high-toned,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- histrionic,
- hoity-toity,
- hyperelegant,
- imposing,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- insincere,
- la-di-da,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- maniere,
- mannered,
- meretricious,
- mincing,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overacted,
- overblown,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overinvolved,
- overnice,
- overrefined,
- overwrought,
- peacockish,
- peacocky,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- precieuse,
- precieux,
- precious,
- put-on,
- rhetorical,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- snobbish,
- snotty,
- sonorous,
- splashy,
- stagy,
- stilted,
- studied,
- superficial,
- swank,
- swollen,
- tall,
- theatrical,
- tony,
- too-too,
- tortuous,
- tumid,
- turgid,
- unnatural,
- utopian,
- vainglorious,
- vaunting,
- visionary,
- windy
- Gongoresque,
- Johnsonian,
- absurd,
- affected,
- aggrandized,
- ambitious,
- amplified,
- arrogant,
- ballyhooed,
- bedizened,
- beyond belief,
- big,
- big-sounding,
- bizarre,
- bombastic,
- classy,
- cockamamie,
- condescending,
- convoluted,
- crazy,
- declamatory,
- disproportionate,
- domineering,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- exaggerated,
- excessive,
- exorbitant,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- fancy,
- fantastic,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- flossy,
- foolish,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gassy,
- gaudy,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- grotesque,
- haughty,
- high,
- high-faluting,
- high-flowing,
- high-flying,
- high-headed,
- high-minded,
- high-nosed,
- high-sounding,
- high-swelling,
- high-toned,
- highfalutin,
- highfaluting,
- hoity-toity,
- hyperbolic,
- incredible,
- inflated,
- inkhorn,
- inordinate,
- labyrinthine,
- laughable,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- ludicrous,
- lurid,
- magnified,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- monstrous,
- nonsensical,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- outrageous,
- outre,
- overbearing,
- overdone,
- overdrawn,
- overelaborate,
- overemphasized,
- overemphatic,
- overestimated,
- overgreat,
- overinvolved,
- overlarge,
- overpraised,
- oversold,
- overstated,
- overstressed,
- overwrought,
- patronizing,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- poppycockish,
- preposterous,
- pretentious,
- prodigal,
- profuse,
- proud,
- puffed,
- purse-proud,
- rhetorical,
- ridiculous,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- stilted,
- stretched,
- stuck-up,
- superior,
- superlative,
- swollen,
- tall,
- tony,
- toplofty,
- tortuous,
- touted,
- uppish,
- uppity,
- upstage,
- vaunting,
- weird,
- wild,
- windy
- swagger
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- act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner related words >
- amble,
- arrogance,
- barge,
- bluff,
- bluster,
- bluster and bluff,
- blustering,
- boast,
- boastfulness,
- boasting,
- bombast,
- bounce,
- bowl along,
- brag,
- braggadocio,
- braggartism,
- bragging,
- brandish,
- bravado,
- brave show,
- bully,
- bullying,
- bundle,
- bustle,
- clump,
- cock,
- conceit,
- crow,
- cut a swath,
- display,
- drag,
- draw the longbow,
- drifter,
- droop,
- fanfaronade,
- flaunt,
- flounce,
- flourish,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- foot,
- footslog,
- fuss,
- gait,
- gallop,
- gasconade,
- gasconism,
- halt,
- hector,
- hectoring,
- heroics,
- hippety-hop,
- hitch,
- hobble,
- hobo,
- hop,
- intimidate,
- intimidation,
- jactation,
- jactitation,
- jog,
- jolt,
- jump,
- limp,
- lock step,
- lumber,
- lunge,
- lurch,
- mince,
- mincing steps,
- ostentation,
- out-herod Herod,
- pace,
- paddle,
- parade,
- peacock,
- peacockery,
- peacockishness,
- peg,
- piaffe,
- piaffer,
- plod,
- pontificate,
- prance,
- prink,
- puff,
- rack,
- rage,
- rant,
- rave,
- roadster,
- rodomontade,
- roister,
- roll,
- rollick,
- sashay,
- saunter,
- scuff,
- scuffle,
- scuttle,
- shack,
- shamble,
- show,
- show off,
- shuffle,
- side,
- sidle,
- single-foot,
- skip,
- slang,
- slink,
- slither,
- slog,
- slouch,
- slowness,
- speak for Buncombe,
- splutter,
- sputter,
- stagger,
- stalk,
- stamp,
- step,
- stomp,
- storm,
- straddle,
- straggle,
- stride,
- stroll,
- strolling gait,
- strut,
- strutting,
- stump,
- sundowner,
- swaggering,
- swagman,
- swank,
- swash,
- swashbuckle,
- swashbucklering,
- swashbucklery,
- swashbuckling,
- swell,
- swing,
- tittup,
- toddle,
- totter,
- traipse,
- traveler,
- tread,
- trip,
- trot,
- trudge,
- vanity,
- vapor,
- vaunt,
- vauntery,
- vaunting,
- velocity,
- waddle,
- walk,
- wamble,
- wiggle,
- wobble
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