Boast vs. Ostentation — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Boast and Ostentation
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Boast
To talk or write about oneself or something related to oneself in a proud or self-admiring way.
Ostentation
Pretentious display meant to impress others; pretentious showiness.
Boast
To say (something about oneself) in a proud or self-admiring way.
Ostentation
(Archaic) The act or an instance of showing; an exhibition.
Boast
To have or possess (a desirable feature)
A mall that boasts 80 shops.
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Ostentation
Ambitious display; vain show; display intended to excite admiration or applause.
Boast
To shape or form (stone) roughly with a broad chisel.
Ostentation
(obsolete) A show or spectacle.
Boast
The act or an instance of boasting
Got tired of listening to his boasts.
Ostentation
The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; - usually in a detractive sense.
He knew that good and bountiful minds were sometimes inclined to ostentation.
Boast
A source of pride.
Ostentation
A show or spectacle.
Boast
A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself.
Ostentation
A showy outward display
Boast
Something that one brags about.
It was his regular boast that he could eat two full English breakfasts in one sitting.
Ostentation
Lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
Boast
(squash) A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.
Ostentation
Pretentious or showy or vulgar display
Boast
(intransitive) To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.
Boast
(transitive) To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
Boast
(obsolete) To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
Boast
(squash) To play a boast shot.
Boast
(ergative) To possess something special (e.g. as a feature).
The hotel boasts one of the best views of the sea.
His family boasted a famous name.
Boast
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.
By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: . . not of works, lest any man should boast.
Boast
To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
In God we boast all the day long.
Boast
To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
Lest bad men should boastTheir specious deeds.
Boast
To display vaingloriously.
Boast
To possess or have; as, to boast a name.
Boast not thyself of to-morrow.
Boast
To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
Boast
To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.
Boast
Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging.
Reason and morals? and where live they most,In Christian comfort, or in Stoic boast!
Boast
The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, - sometimes of laudable pride or exultation.
The boast of historians.
Boast
Speaking of yourself in superlatives
Boast
Show off
Boast
Wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner;
She was sporting a new hat
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