Gloat vs. Boast — What's the Difference?

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

To talk or write about oneself or something related to oneself in a proud or self-admiring way.

The act of gloating.

To say (something about oneself) in a proud or self-admiring way.

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

To have or possess (a desirable feature)

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

To shape or form (stone) roughly with a broad chisel.

To triumph, crow, relish, glory, revel.

The act or an instance of boasting

An act or instance of gloating.

A source of pride.

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

A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself.

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

Something that one brags about.

Malicious satisfaction

(squash) A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.

Dwell on with satisfaction

(intransitive) To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.

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

(transitive) To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.

(obsolete) To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.

(squash) To play a boast shot.

(ergative) To possess something special (e.g. as a feature).

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.

To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.

To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.

To display vaingloriously.

To possess or have; as, to boast a name.

To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.

To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.

Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging.

The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, - sometimes of laudable pride or exultation.

Speaking of yourself in superlatives

Show off

Wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner;