Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Boastful.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Given to bragging; boasting; vainglorious.
- Proceeding from or exhibiting ostentation; ostentatious; boasting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to Thraso; like, or becoming to, Thraso; bragging; boastful; vainglorious.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Like Thraso (a character in the play Eunuchus by Terence);
boastful ,bragging ,vainglorious .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Let your extemporaneous descantings and unpremeditated expatiations have intelligibility and veracious vivacity, without rhodomontade or thrasonical bombast.
December 7th, 2005 curufea 2005
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Novi hominem tanquam te: his humour is lofty, his discourse peremptory, his tongue filed, his eye ambitious, his gait majestical, and his general behavior vain, ridiculous, and thrasonical.
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MACDONALD is magniloquent, perhaps a bit thrasonical;
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 28, 1891 Various
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Junker-led men could do they have since done to make that thrasonical brag good.
New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index Various
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He guffawed silently in his own mental chamber at such sanctimonious, thrasonical ravings, for childish behavior of long ago was not evidence for his untenable claim of being a kind man and thus a good one.
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With this thrasonical challenge the pirates set sail for Otoque, another of the islands in the bay; for Taboga, though it was "an exceeding pleasant island," was by this time bare of meat.
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922
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Novi hominem tanquam te: his humour is lofty, his discourse peremptory, his tongue filed, his eye ambitious, his gait majestical, and his general behaviour vain, ridiculous, and thrasonical.
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Buckingham's fanfaronading, thrasonical disposition, a form of vain, empty boasting peculiar to megalomaniacs.
The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series Rafael Sabatini 1912
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Climene, was moved almost to tears by the hard fate which through four long acts kept her from the hungering arms of the so beautiful Leandre, howled its delight over the ignominy of Pantaloon, the buffooneries of his sprightly lackey Harlequin, and the thrasonical strut and bellowing fierceness of the cowardly Rhodomont.
Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini 1912
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Not since the superb Mondor amazed the world has so thrasonical a bully been seen upon the stage.
Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini 1912
bilby commented on the word thrasonical
"How shocking and valuable might it be for Mailer to hear the grievances of his women before an impartial observer, without the possibility of overbearing them by the threat of violence or eloquence. What fun it would be to accept all his thrasonical challenges and then unveil him to his own womenfolk, including his dark and velvety daughters, and ask them what they think of him."
- 'My Mailer Problem', Germaine Greer in Esquire, 1971.
April 6, 2008
sionnach commented on the word thrasonical
So 'challenges' is singular now, bilby?
April 7, 2008
bilby commented on the word thrasonical
typ0 +-)
April 7, 2008
qms commented on the word thrasonical
No longer can one sport a monocle
Except with a purpose ironical.
In jest it is silly
(Cf. Eustace Tilley),
In earnest it's downright thrasonical.
March 9, 2015