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SELF-PRAISE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does self-praise mean?

• SELF-PRAISE (noun)
The noun SELF-PRAISE has 1 sense:

1. speaking of yourself in superlatives

Familiarity information: SELF-PRAISE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• SELF-PRAISE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Speaking of yourself in superlatives

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

boast; boasting; jactitation; self-praise

Hypernyms ("self-praise" is a kind of...):

speech act (the use of language to perform some act)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "self-praise"):

brag; bragging; crow; crowing; gasconade; line-shooting; vaporing (an instance of boastful talk)

bluster; braggadocio; rhodomontade; rodomontade (vain and empty boasting)

vaunt (extravagant self-praise)

self-assertion (the act of putting forth your own opinions in a boastful or inconsiderate manner that implies you feel superior to others)

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