Word
braggadocious
Phoneticsbrag·gado·cious
/ˌbɹæɡəˈdoʊʃəs/
Definition
adj. describing someone who talks too much about how great they are. You use this for people who are always boasting or showing off their achievements.
adj. characterised by boastful or arrogant behaviour. Often used to describe a person's speech or public persona when they excessively praise their own accomplishments.
Examples
“He was so braggadocious that nobody wanted to listen to his stories.”
“The boxer's braggadocious attitude during the press conference was clearly intended to intimidate his opponent before the match.”
“Critics argued that the CEO's braggadocious claims about the company's future growth were not supported by the actual quarterly financial data.”
Examples
simple
“He was so braggadocious that nobody wanted to listen to his stories.”
contextual
“The boxer's braggadocious attitude during the press conference was clearly intended to intimidate his opponent before the match.”
complex
“Critics argued that the CEO's braggadocious claims about the company's future growth were not supported by the actual quarterly financial data.”
Usage
Typically used as a predicative adjective after linking verbs like 'be' or 'sound', or attributively before a noun.
Etymology
From braggadocio + -ous. The base is the mock-Italian coinage that Edmund Spenser devised for The Faerie Queene in 1590, naming a character whose name became the word for empty boasting; the adjectival suffix was added some four centuries later.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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