brag

1. 1.

   exceptionally good

   “a boss hand at carpentry”

   “his brag cornfield”

   Synonymsboss

   Similarsuperior

   colloquialism

Other forms of brag

plural

brags·

past tense or participle

bragged

present participle

bragging

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about brag

What does brag mean?

brag means "an instance of boastful talk". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in brag?

brag has 1 syllable: brag. In IPA it is /ˈbɹæɡ/.

What is another word for brag?

Close synonyms include bragging, crow, crowing, vaporing, line-shooting. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is brag a common word?

brag is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with brag?

1 word rhymes with brag. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.