Word Meanings - FLAUNT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To throw or spread out; to flutter; to move ostentatiously; as, a flaunting show. You flaunt about the streets in your new gilt chariot. Arbuthnot. One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade. Pope.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FLAUNT)

• Display
• Show
• exhibit
• unfold
• evidence
• evince
• flaunt
• vault
• expose
• ostentation
• spread out
• parade
• Parade
• Vaunt
• display

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FLAUNT)

• Suppress
• conceal
• retire
• re-cede
• skulk
• hide
• shrivel
• collapse
• furl

Related words: (words related to FLAUNT)

• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• VAUNT
  To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk ostentatiously; to brag. Pride, which prompts a man to vaunt and overvalue what he is, does incline him to disvalue what he has. Gov. of Tongue.
• VAULTING
  1. The act of constructing vaults; a vaulted construction. 2. Act of one who vaults or leaps.
• CONCEALED
  Hidden; kept from sight; secreted. -- Con*ceal"ed*ly (, adv. -- Con*ceal"ed*ness, n. Concealed weapons , dangerous weapons so carried on the person as to be knowingly or willfully concealed from sight, -- a practice forbidden by statute.
• UNFOLDER
  One who, or that which, unfolds.
• VAULTY
  Arched; concave. "The vaulty heaven." Shak.
• EVINCE
  1. To conquer; to subdue. Error by his own arms is best evinced. Milton. 2. To show in a clear manner; to prove beyond any reasonable doubt; to manifest; to make evident; to bring to light; to evidence. Common sense and experience must and will
• DISPLAYER
  One who, or that which, displays.
• OSTENTATION
  1. The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense. "Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm." Milton. He knew that good and bountiful minds were sometimes inclined to
• EXPOSEDNESS
  The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
• EVIDENCER
  One whi gives evidence.
• UNFOLDMENT
  The acct of unfolding, or the state of being unfolded. The extreme unfoldment of the instinctive powers. C. Morris.
• VAUNTER
  One who vaunts; a boaster.
• RETIRER
  One who retires.
• EXPOSE
  1. To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection. Those who seek truth only, freely expose their principles to the test, and are pleased to have them
• RETIREMENT
  1. The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer. O, blest Retirement, friend of life's decline. Goldsmith. Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books. Thomson. 2. A place of seclusion
• INEVIDENCE
  Want of evidence; obscurity. Barrow.
• ENVAULT
  To inclose in a vault; to entomb. Swift.
• BEDSPREAD
  A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet.
• INSUPPRESSIBLE
  That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.
• INCONCEALABLE
  Not concealable. "Inconcealable imperfections." Sir T. Browne.
• AVAUNTOUR
  A boaster. Chaucer.
• DISPREAD
  To spread abroad, or different ways; to spread apart; to open; as, the sun dispreads his beams. Spenser.
• CROSS-VAULTING
  Vaulting formed by the intersection of two or more simple vaults.