Difference between Braggart and Proud

What is the difference between Braggart and Proud?

Braggart as a noun is someone who boasts. while Proud as an adjective is having a too high opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious.

Braggart

Part of speech: noun

Definition: someone who boasts.

Proud

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Having a too high opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious.Gratified; feeling honoured (by something); feeling satisfied or happy about a fact or event.Possessed of a due sense of what one is worth or deserves.Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride.Brave, valiant; gallant.Standing out or raised; swollen.Excited by sexual desire; (of female animals) in heat.Happy, usually used with a sense of honor, as in "I'm so proud to have you in our town." But occasionally just plain happy as in "I'm proud to see gas prices down." This is a widespread colloquial usage in the South.

Example sentence: Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

We hope you now know whether to use Braggart or Proud in your sentence.

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