Crossword-Solution: BOAST 5 letters, 168 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Boast	v. i.	To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of one's self or of things belonging to one's self; as, to boast of one's exploits courage, descent, wealth.
Boast	v. i.	To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
Boast	v. t.	To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
Boast	v. t.	To display vaingloriously.
Boast	v. t.	To possess or have; as, to boast a name.
Boast	v. t.	To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
Boast	v. t.	To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.
Boast	n.	Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging.
Boast	n.	The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, -- sometimes of laudable pride or exultation.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
BOAST	anagram	BASTO, BOATS, SABOT, SOBAT, TABOS

We have 168 clues for the answer “BOAST”

Clue	Answers
"I am the greatest," e.g.	1 answer
"I'm king of the world!" e.g.	1 answer
"Look, ma, no cavities!," e.g.	1 answer
"My dad's bigger than your dad," e.g.	1 answer
"Veni, vidi, vici," e.g.	1 answer
"Veni, vidi, vici," for one	1 answer
"We're #1!," e.g.	1 answer
"We're number one!" is one	1 answer
*Dispense with modesty	1 answer
Act of vanity	1 answer
Attempt to enlarge an image, say	1 answer
Be proud in the possession of.	1 answer
Be proud of.	1 answer
Be vainglorious	1 answer
Bit of braggadocio	1 answer
Bit of jactation	1 answer
Blow one's own trumpet	1 answer
Blowhard's claim	1 answer
Blowhard's offering	1 answer
Blowhard's words	1 answer
Braggart's claim.	1 answer
Caesar's "Veni, vidi, vici" is a famous one	1 answer
Cause for pride	1 answer
Dispense with all modesty	1 answer
Display braggadocio	1 answer
Display strong self-esteem	1 answer
Do some chest-thumping	1 answer
Draw the longbow.	1 answer
Egotist's claim	1 answer
Egotistical utterance	1 answer
Emulate Major Hoople	1 answer
Flaunt one's feats	1 answer
Have (in mild irony).	1 answer
Have and display.	1 answer
Herr Goebbels' theme song.	1 answer
Humblebrag, really	1 answer
Immodest claim	1 answer
Indulge in tall talk.	1 answer
Let out hot air?	1 answer
One may begin, "Who's got two thumbs and ... "	1 answer
Proud remark.	1 answer
Reason for pride	1 answer
Self-promoting claim	1 answer
Shape stone roughly with a broad chisel	1 answer
Shape with a chisel	1 answer
Show no modesty	1 answer
Show one's vanity	1 answer
Speak conceitedly.	1 answer
Speak well of oneself	1 answer
Speak with pride	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ERETA

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with BOAST (5)

Towards him they bend With awful reverence prone; and as a God Extoll him equal to the highest in Heav’n: Nor fail’d they to express how much they prais’d, That for the general safety he despis’d His own: for neither do the Spirits damn’d Loose all thir vertue; least bad men should boast Thir specious deeds on earth, which glory excites, Or close ambition varnisht o’re with zeal.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

Its owner lit it again, and said: “Boast no more, but henceforth be content to give thy light in silence.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

Yer teeth baint half gone yet; and what’s a old man’s standing if so be his teeth baint gone? Weren’t I stale in wedlock afore ye were out of arms? ’Tis a poor thing to be sixty, when there’s people far past four-score—a boast weak as water.” It was the unvarying custom in Weatherbury to sink minor differences when the maltster had to be pacified.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

For Zeus who hates the braggart’s boast Beheld that gold-bespangled host; As at the goal the paean they upraise, He struck them with his forked lightning blaze.

The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000

But Tillie had hoped that Thea would marry a title, and she did not boast much about Ottenburg,—at least not until after her memorable trip to Kansas City to hear Thea sing.

The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992

Quotes with BOAST (3)

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Anonymous Holy Bible: New International Version

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

Bertrand Russell

Be a light unto the world, and hurt it not. Seek to build not destroy. Bring My people home. How? By your shining example. Seek only Godliness. Speak only in truthfulness. Act only in love. Live the Law of Love now and forever more. Give everything require nothing. Avoid the mundane. Do not accept the unacceptable. Teach all who seek to learn of Me. Make every moment of your life an outpouring of love. Use every moment to think the highest thought, say the highest word, do th…

Neale Donald Walsch Conversations With God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 2

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 250 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).