vaunt – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
מילים נרדפות: boasting,
self-praise,
jactitation,
boast,
overstate,
exaggerate,
hyerbolise,
hyperbolize,
amplify,
overdraw,
magnify
vaunt
v.
boast, brag, exaggerate about oneself
n.
act or instance of boasting
Boasting
Boasting is to speak with excessive pride and self-satisfaction about one’s achievements, possessions, or abilities.
vaunt
Noun
1. extravagant self-praise
(hypernym) boast, boasting, self-praise, jactitation
(derivation) boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, gasconade
Verb
1. show off
(synonym) boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, gasconade
(hypernym) overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyerbolise, magnify, amplify
(hyponym) puff
(derivation) bragger, braggart, boaster, blowhard, line-shooter, vaunter
Vaunt
(v. t.)
To put forward; to display.
(v. t.)
To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.
(v. i.)
To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk ostentatiously; to brag.
(n.)
The first part.
(n.)
A vain display of what one is, or has, or has done; ostentation from vanity; a boast; a brag.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
vaunt
Synonyms and 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
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
