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Boasting

Definition: Boasting

Boasting

Noun

1. Speaking of yourself in superlatives.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "boasting" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Boasting

DomainDefinition

Dream Interpretation

To hear boasting in your dreams, you will sincerely regret an impulsive act, which will cause trouble to your friends. To boast to a competitor, foretells that you will be unjust, and will use dishonest means to overcome competition. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

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Synonyms: Boasting

Synonyms: boast (n), jactitation (n), self-praise (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Boasting

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Affectation

Noun: affectation; affectedness; Adjective: acting a part; Verb: pretense; (falsehood), (ostentation); boasting.

Boasting

Noun: boasting; Verb: boast, vaunt, crake; pretense, pretensions; puff, puffery; flourish, fanfaronade; gasconade; blague, bluff, gas; highfalutin, highfaluting; hot air, spread-eagleism; brag, braggardism; bravado, bunkum, buncombe; jactancy; bounce; venditation, vaporing, rodomontade, bombast, fine talking, tall talk, magniloquence, teratology, heroics; Chauvinism; exaggeration.

Adjective: boasting; Verb: magniloquent, flaming, Thrasonic, stilted, gasconading, braggart, boastful, pretentious, soi-disant; vainglorious; (conceited); highfalutin, highfaluting; spread-eagle.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Boasting

English words defined with "boasting": Blague, Blattering, bluster, Boastance, Boastingly, Boastless, Bobance, braggadocioexhibitionist, exhibitionisticFanfaronadeJactancy, Jactitation of marriageQuackishrhodomontade, Rodomont, rodomontadeTo boast one's selfVauntful. (references)
Specialty definitions using "boasting": ATKINSBlood of the Grogramspenis war, Porcus, ProudfuteSing Out. (references)
Etymologies containing "boasting": Bobance. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Boasting

DomainTitle

Books

  • Boasting in the Lord; the phenomenon of prayer in Saint Paul (reference)

  • The Big Boasting Battle (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Image Slideshow: Boasting

Computer Images:
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Photo Album: Boasting

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British valour and Yankee boasting or, Shannon versus Chesapeake / G. Cruikshank fect. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Familiar Quotations: Boasting

AuthorQuotation

Shakespeare

Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, "The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it."

Sidney J. Harris

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

Thomas Jefferson

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.

Young

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Zimmermann

Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.

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Use in Literature: Boasting

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Her father was a brutal, boasting old professor of mathematics, never married, and a rake, despite his years

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Non-Fiction Usage: Boasting

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Business

HCMC is the country’s IT education center, with 10 IT programs in its universities boasting 9,980 students and 160 lecturers. (references)

Most observers agree that the richest of Vietnam’s resources is its population, the twelfth largest in the world at 78 million, demographically one of the youngest in Asia (fully one-half are under the age of 25), and boasting a basic literacy rate of over 90%. Providing Vietnam’s students and workers with solid science, technology, and management education, with foreign language skills, and with up-to-date vocational training is the key to creating a globally competitive work force to drive economic development. (references)

Economic History

Russia

Tula is the only Russian region boasting completely digitized telecommunication. (references)

Bahrain

Bahrain International Airport, with a new terminal and boasting more than 35 airlines, is considered a gateway to the region. (references)

Bahrain

Airport: Bahrain International Airport, with a new terminal and boasting more than 35 airlines, is considered a gateway to the region. (references)

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Speeches: Boasting

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

James Madison

1809-1817Such is the spectacle which the deputed authorities of a nation boasting its religion and morality have not been restrained from presenting to an enlightened age.

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Usage Frequency: Boasting

"Boasting" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 94.78% of the time. "Boasting" is used about 134 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)94.78%12728,395
Noun (singular)5.22%7133,076
                    Total100.00%134N/A

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Expression: Boasting

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "boasting": teraflops-boasting.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Boasting

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
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Modern Translation: Boasting

Language Translations for "boasting"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

lëvdatë (gasconade, Laud, plaudit, praise). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

吹嘘 (Boast, Boasted). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

ylvästely (swanking). (various references)

   

French

  

vantant, fanfaronnade (boastfulness). (various references)

   

German

  

prahlend (bragging), aufschneidend. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μεγαλορρημοσύνη (bombast), μεγαλοστομία (big mouth, big talk, bombast), λεονταρισμοί (bravado, hectoring, swaggering). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

"תפארות (boastfulness, vaunt), "תאמרות (bragging, vaunting), "ת'אות (arrogance), "ת'"לות (grandiosity, haughtiness), "תרברבות (conceit, haughtiness, vanity), "ת פחות (distention, inflating, puffing up, swell, swelling). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

bual (bubbling over), debos, aksi (action, bragging, lawsuit, pretense). (various references)

   

Italian

  

vanteria (boast, brag, braggadocio, vaunt). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

能書き (advertising the excellence of one's wares), 誇称 (exaggeration), 高言 (bragging, talking big), 豪語 (bombast), 広言 (bragging, talking big), 大言壮語 (big talk, bragging). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

たい'"そう" (big talk, bragging), のうがき (advertising the excellence of one's wares), "う" (bombast), "しょう (accident, break-down, call by name, calling out, exaggeration, failure, lakes and marshes, old name, out of order, page, pepper), "う'" (a wide plain or field, antigen, bragging, declaration, flattery, light source, plateau, profession, protest, tableland, talking big, wilderness). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

자랑 (Boast, Bragging, Priding). (various references)

   

Manx

  

jannoo boggys (boast, brag, exult), boggysid, boggysaght (boastfulness), boasteilys (bragging, vainglory), boasteilagh (boaster, bragging, vainglorious), boasteil (boast, brag). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oastingbay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

bazófia (bragging, leavings, leftovers, swagger, vaunt), alarde (flaunt, ostentation, shew, show, splurge, vaunt). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

lãudãros (blusterer, boaster, boastful, bouncer, braggart, bragging, flaunty, Hector). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

ballart, b rraisg, spleadh (a splay foot, flattering, ostentation, romance), sgleò (dimness of the eyes, false report, film, misery, romancing, vapour), sgeilm, aibheis (sea). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

samohvalisanje, razmetanje (boast, braggadocio, ostentation, splurge, strut, vaunt), hvalisanje (bluster, brag, braggadocio, braggery, bragging, fanfaronade, gasconade, jactation, jactitation, ostentation, vaunt). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

parada (check, detention, halt, lieu, parade, Parry, pen, pull up, rank, relay, save, stake, stand, standstill, stop, stoping, stoppage, stopping place), jactancia (boast, boastfulness, brag, jactation, swagger, vaunt), alardes (jive). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

palavra (applesauce, baloney, boloney, bounce, braggadocio, bragging, bunk, bunkum, claptrap, cock and bull story, eyewash, fish story, flubdub, flummery, gaff, hot air, jazz, lie, palaver, talkee-talkee, tall story), övünme (big talk, blow, boast, bounce, brag, bragging, egotism, gas, rodomontade, self praise, vaunt). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

цwьnjeсlik. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

хвастощі (blow, blowing, boast, bounce, brag, braggery, bravadoes, display, flash, gasconade, jactation, jactitation, ostent, ostentation, rodomontade). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Boasting

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

gloria, gloriae, gloriam, gloriatio, iactantia, iactantiam. (various references)

Old English450-1100

gylp. (various references)

Arabic500-Modern

mahjas. (various references)

Italian900-Modern

bravata. (various references)

French1500-Modern

bravade. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Boasting

LanguageDateSourceRomans Chapter 3, Verse 27
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintPou oun h kauchsiV exekleisqh dia poiou nomou twn ergwn ouci alla dia nomou pistewV
Latin405VulgateUbi est ergo gloriatio exclusa est per quam legem factorum non sed per legem fidei
Old English990West SaxonHwær forðy is seo gielpnes? Heo tellað to nahte. For hwy? For þære gehealding þære æ? Na, ac for geleafan.
Middle English1395WyclifWhere thanne is thi gloriyng? It is excludid. Bi what lawe? Of dedis doyng? Nay, but by the lawe of feith.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleWhere is then thy reioysinge? It is excluded. By what lawe? by ye lawe of workes? Naye: but by the lawe of fayth.
Jacobean English1611King JamesWhere is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
Victorian English1833WebsterWhere is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? No; but by the law of faith.
Basic English1964OgdenWhat reason, then, is there for pride? It is shut out. By what sort of law? of works? No, but by a law of faith.

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Matched Bible Translations: Boasting

LanguageRomans Chapter 3, Verse 27
CebuanoNan, hain na man ang atong pagpagarbo? Gipalagpot na sa gawas. Pinasikad sa unsang lagda? Sa lagda ba sa mga buhat? Dili, hinonoa pinasikad sa lagda sa pagtoo.
CroatianGdje je dakle hvastanje? Iskljuèeno je. Po kojem zakonu? Po zakonu djela? Ne, nego po zakonu vjere.
DanishHvor er så vor Ros? Den er udelukket. Ved hvilken Lov? Gerningernes? Nej, men ved Troens Lov.
DutchWaar is dan de roem? Hij is uitgesloten. Door wat wet? Der werken? Neen, maar door de wet des geloofs.
FinnishMissä siis on kerskaaminen? Se on suljettu pois. Minkä lain kautta? Tekojenko lain? Ei, vaan uskon lain kautta.
GermanWo bleibt nun der Ruhm? Er ist ausgeschlossen. Durch das Gesetz? Durch der Werke Gesetz? Nicht also, sondern durch des Glaubens Gesetz.
HungarianHol van tehát a dicsekedés? Kirekesztetett. Mely törvény által? A cselekedeteké által? Nem; hanem a hit törvénye által.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariOleh karena itu tidak ada lagi alasan bagi kita untuk berbangga-bangga. Mengapa demikian? Apakah karena kita melakukan yang tercantum dalam hukum agama Yahudi? Bukan. Tetapi karena kita percaya.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaJikalau begitu, di manakah kemegahan itu? Itu sudah ditolak. Atas hukum manakah? Atas hukum melakukan syariat Tauratkah? Bukan, melainkan atas hukum iman.
ItalianDove sta dunque il vanto? Esso è stato escluso! Da quale legge? Da quella delle opere? No, ma dalla legge della fede.
LatvianKur paliek tava diþoðanâs? Tâ ir izslçgta. Ar kâdu likumu? Darbiem? Nç, bet ar ticîbas likumu.
MaoriNa, kei hea te whakamanamana? Kua araia atu. E tehea ritenga ture? e to nga mahi? Kahore: engari e te ture o te whakapono.
NorwegianHvor er så vår ros? Den er utelukket. Ved hvilken lov? Gjerningenes? Nei, ved troens lov.
PortugueseOnde está logo a jactância? Foi excluída. Por que lei? Das obras? Não; mas pela lei da fé.   
RumanianUnde este dar pricina de laudq? S`a dus. Prin ce fel de lege? A faptelor? Nu; ci prin legea credinyei.
ShuarNújainkia ii pénker ajasjinia nu "winia kakarmarjai Túrunajai" Tíchamnia asar ¿nankaamantu Enentáimtumarminkaitiaj~i? Penkesha. Warí, akupkamu umitsuk aya Kristu nekas Enentáimtakrin Yus "pénkeraitme" Túramji.
SwahiliBasi, tunaweza kujivunia nini? Hakuna! Kwa nini? Je, kwa sababu ya kutimiza Sheria? La! Bali kwa sababu tunaamini.
SwedishHuru bliver det då med vår berömmelse? Den är utestängd. Genom vilken lag? Månne genom en gärningarnas lag? Nej, genom en trons lag.
UmaJadi', uma-pi ria ohea-ta mpomolangko nono-ta. Apa' Alata'ala uma mpotarima-ta ngkai po'ingku-ta to lompe'. Natarima-tale, ngkai pepangala' -ta hi Pue' Yesus.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Boasting

Derivations

Words ending with "boasting": outboasting. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Boasting" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Badastan, Batastini, beastling, biopsying, Boustany. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Boasting"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "boasting" (pronounced bō"sting)
5-ō" s t i ngcoasting, hosting, posting, roasting, toasting.
4-s t i ngaccosting, adjusting, arresting, assisting, attesting, besting, blacklisting, blasting, boosting, breasting, broadcasting, bursting, busting, casting, coexisting, composting, consisting, contesting, contrasting, costing, cresting, defrosting, delisting, digesting, disgusting, divesting, dusting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, everlasting, exhausting, existing, fasting, feasting, forecasting, frosting, gusting, harvesting, Hasting, hoisting, ingesting, insisting, interesting, investing, jousting, lambasting, lasting, listing, lusting, manifesting, molesting, nesting, ousting, pasting, persisting, preexisting, protesting, readjusting, recasting, reinvesting, requesting, resisting, resting, retesting, rusting, suggesting, tasting, testing, thrusting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, uninteresting, vesting, wasting, wresting.
3-t i ngannotating, anticipating, appointing, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, abrogating, abutting, accelerating, accenting, accentuating, accepting, accommodating, abating, abbreviating, abdicating, abducting, abetting, aborting, accounting, accrediting, accumulating, acquitting, acting, activating, adapting, addicting, adjudicating, administrating, admitting, adopting, advocating, affecting, affiliating, afflicting, aggravating, agitating, airlifting, alerting, alienating, alleviating, allocating, allotting, alternating, amounting, articulating, assassinating, assaulting, asserting, assimilating, associating, attempting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, authenticating, automating, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, betting, biting, bitting, blanketing, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boating, bolting, booting, boycotting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, butting, calculating, captivating, carpeting, carting, castigating, castrating, catapulting, cavorting, celebrating, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, chlorinating, circulating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coagulating, coating, cohabiting, collaborating, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commemorating, commenting, committing, communicating, commuting, compensating, competing, complementing, completing, complicating, complimenting, computing, concentrating, concocting, conducting, confiscating, conflicting, confronting, congratulating, connecting, consenting, consolidating, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, consummating, contacting, contaminating, contemplating, contracting, contradicting, contributing, converting, convicting, cooperating, coordinating, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corroborating, corrupting, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, culminating, cultivating, cutting, darting, dating, daunting, debating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decanting, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, degenerating, delegating, deleting, deliberating, delighting, delineating, demonstrating, denigrating, denting, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, deserting, designating, destructing, detecting, deteriorating, detonating, detracting, devastating, devoting, dictating, dieting, differentiating, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, discriminating, disintegrating, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, disseminating, dissenting, dissipating, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, documenting, domesticating, dominating, donating, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, duplicating, eating, editing, educating, effecting, elaborating, elating, electing, electroplating, elevating, eliciting, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emitting, emulating, enacting, encapsulating, enchanting, enunciating, equating, equivocating, eradicating, erecting, erupting, escalating, escorting, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, evicting, exacerbating, exacting, exaggerating, exalting, exasperating, excavating, excepting, exciting, excoriating, excruciating, executing, exempting, exerting, exhibiting, exhilarating, exhorting, exiting, exonerating, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extenuating, exterminating, extorting, extracting, extraditing, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fainting, fascinating, faulting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fluctuating, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forfeiting, forgetting, formulating, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, fruiting, frustrating, generating, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, graduating, grafting, granting, grating, gravitating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gutting, gyrating, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, hating, haunting, heating, hesitating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, homeporting, humiliating, hunting, hurting, hydrogenating, igniting, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impacting, imparting, impersonating, implanting, implementing, implicating, importing, imprinting, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, inciting, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, indicting, infatuating, infecting, infighting, infiltrating, inflating, inflicting, infuriating, ingratiating, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, initiating, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, inspecting, instigating, instituting, instructing, insulating, insulting, integrating, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interpreting, interrogating, interrupting, intersecting, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, inventing, investigating, invigorating, inviting, irritating, isolating, jetting, jolting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lamenting, laminating, legislating, letting, levitating, liberating, lifting, lighting, limiting, liquidating, litigating, locating, looting, lubricating, malting, mandating, manipulating, marketing, marting, masturbating, mating, matting, mediating, meditating, meeting, melting, migrating, minting, misappropriating, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, mistreating, mitigating, moderating, molting, moonlighting, motivating, mounting, mutating, mutilating, muting, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negating, neglecting, negotiating, netting, nitrating, nominating, nonbiting, nonoperating, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obliterating, obstructing, obviating, officiating, offsetting, omitting, operating, opting, orbiting, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overestimating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, overstating, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, participating, parting, patenting, patting, penetrating, percolating, perfecting, permeating, permitting, perpetrating, perpetuating, persecuting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, placating, planting, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, pontificating, populating, porting, pouting, precipitating, predicting, predominating, preempting, presenting, preventing, printing, procrastinating, profiting, prognosticating, prohibiting, projecting, proliferating, promoting, prompting, promulgating, propagating, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, pulsating, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, radiating, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, reactivating, reallocating, reasserting, rebutting, recalculating, recanting, reciprocating, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recreating, recruiting, recuperating, redacting, redecorating, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, reevaluating, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regenerating, regretting, regulating, rehabilitating, reigniting, reincorporating, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejecting, rejuvenating, relating, relegating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renegotiating, renovating, renting, repainting, repatriating, repeating, replanting, replicating, reporting, representing, reprinting, repudiating, rerouting, resenting, resonating, resorting, respecting, restarting, restating, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, resuscitating, retaliating, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverberating, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, rocketing, rooting, rotating, rotting, salivating, salting, saluting, saturating, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, segregating, selecting, separating, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, simulating, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, speculating, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, stagnating, starting, stating, stimulating, stipulating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, subordinating, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suffocating, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, syndicating, tabulating, tainting, targeting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, terminating, thermosetting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, titillating, tolerating, tormenting, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underestimating, underreporting, understating, underwriting, undulating, unexciting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, urinating, vacating, vacillating, validating, vaulting, ventilating, venting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wanting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, writing, yachting.

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Anagrams: Boasting

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: boatings.

Words within the letters "a-b-g-i-n-o-s-t"

-1 letter: agonist, bagnios, basting, bastion, boating, bonitas, gabions, gitanos, obtains.

-2 letters: bagnio, basing, basion, bating, batons, bigots, bingos, biogas, bionts, biotas, bogans, bonita, bonsai, gabion, gainst, giants, gibson, gitano, gobans, ingots, obtain, sating, stingo, tangos, tigons, tongas.

-3 letters: agios, agist, agons, angst, antis, baits, bangs, basin, baton, bigot, bingo, bints, biont, biota, bison, boast.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-g-i-n-o-s-t"
 

+2 letters: abiogenist, botanising, sabotaging.

 

+3 letters: abiogenists, abnegations, abrogations, geobotanies, geobotanist, iceboatings, obfuscating, obligations, outbargains, outboasting, sailboating, showboating, subjugation, subrogating, subrogation, subtotaling, tobogganist.

 

+4 letters: absolutizing, amblygonites, backstopping, barnstorming, bastinadoing, broadcasting, geobotanists, haptoglobins, interrobangs, objurgations, sailboatings, speedboating, starboarding, subjugations, subrogations, subtotalling, thingamabobs, tobogganings, tobogganists, urbanologist.

 

+5 letters: antibourgeois, antiglobulins, boatbuildings, bootstrapping, brainstorming, conglobations, motorboatings, skateboarding, speedboatings, storyboarding, subgeneration, subirrigation, subordinating, urbanologists.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Familiar
8. Quotations: Fiction
9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Quotations: Speeches
11. Usage Frequency
12. Expressions
13. Expressions: Internet
14. Translations: Modern
15. Translations: Ancient
16. Bible Trace
17. Derivations
18. Rhymes
19. Anagrams
20. Bibliography


  

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