Brag vs. Gloat — What's the Difference?

Say something in a boastful manner

To feel or express great, often malicious, pleasure or self-satisfaction

A gambling card game which is a simplified form of poker

The act of gloating.

A boastful statement

A feeling of great, often malicious, pleasure or self-satisfaction.

Excellent; first-rate

To exhibit a conspicuous (sometimes malevolent) pleasure or sense of self-satisfaction, often at an adversary's misfortune.

To talk or write about oneself in a proud or self-impressed way.

To triumph, crow, relish, glory, revel.

A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification.

An act or instance of gloating.

The thing which is boasted of.

To look steadfastly; to gaze earnestly; to gaze with passionate desire, lust, or avarice.

(by ellipsis) The card game three card brag.

To gaze with malignant satisfaction; to exult maliciously, sometimes also triumphantly, in another's loss or discomfort; - usually in a bad sense.

(intransitive) To boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, is able to do, or has done; often as an attempt to popularize oneself.

Malicious satisfaction

(transitive) To boast of something.

Dwell on with satisfaction

Excellent; first-rate.

Gaze at or think about something with great self-satisfaction, gratification, or joy

(archaic) Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited.

(obsolete) proudly; boastfully

To talk about one's self, or things pertaining to one's self, in a manner intended to excite admiration, envy, or wonder; to talk boastfully; to boast; - often followed by of; as, to brag of one's exploits, courage, or money, or of the great things one intends to do.

To boast of.

A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretense or self glorification.

The thing which is boasted of.

A game at cards similar to bluff.

Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited.

Proudly; boastfully.

An instance of boastful talk;

Show off

Exceptionally good;