braggadocio | Definition of braggadocio

Synonyms and Antonyms of braggadocio

1 boastful speech or writing

his braggadocio hid the fact that he felt personally inadequate

Synonyms of braggadocio

bluster, bombast, brag, bull [slang], cockalorum, fanfaronade, gas, gasconade, grandiloquence, hot air, magniloquence, rant, rodomontade (also rhodomontade)

Words Related to braggadocio

oratory, rhapsody, rhetoric

pomposity, turgidity, wind

bloviation, verbosity, windiness

babble, blab, chatter, drivel, gabble, gibber, gibberish, jabber, prattle

jawing, patter, prating, yammering

egotism, self-conceit, self-importance, swagger, vaunt

2 someone who boasts

the swaggering braggadocio is a stock figure of American folklore, with Davy Crockett and Mike Fink being prime examples

Synonyms of braggadocio

blower, blowhard, boaster, brag, braggart, bragger, cockalorum, cracker [chiefly dialect], gascon, gasconader, swaggerer, vaunter

Words Related to braggadocio

blusterer, cock

self-advertiser, self-dramatizer, self-promoter