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Presumptuous
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective Presumptuous has 1 sense
- presumptuous(s = adj.all) assuming, assumptive - excessively forward; "an assumptive person"; "on a subject like this it would be too assuming for me to decide"; "the duchess would not put up with presumptuous servants" Derived forms noun presumption4, noun presumption3, noun presumptuousness1
CIDE DICTIONARY
Presumptuous, a. [L. praesumptuosus: cf. F. présomptueux, OF. also presumptuous. See Presumption.].
- Full of presumption; presuming; overconfident or venturesome; audacious; rash; taking liberties unduly; arrogant; insolent; as, a presumptuous commander; presumptuous conduct. [1913 Webster]"A class of presumptuous men, whom age has not made cautious, nor adversity wise." [1913 Webster]
- Founded on presumption; as, a presumptuous idea. Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Done with hold design, rash confidence, or in violation of known duty; willful. Ps. xix. 13. [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Overconfident; foolhardy; rash; presuming; forward; arrogant; insolent.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Presumptuous, adj. unduly or overbearingly confident and presuming.
Derivative
presumptuously adv. presumptuousness n.
Etymology
ME f. OF presumptueux f. LL praesumptuosus, -tiosus (as PRESUME)
THESAURUS
Presumptuous
acceptable, adventurous, arrogant, assuming, audacious, bold, brash, brazen, bumptious, busy, busybody, cheeky, cold, complacent, confident, contumelious, cool, daredevil, daring, death-defying, disdainful, egotistical, familiar, fire-eating, foolhardy, forward, gay, harebrained, hubristic, immodest, impertinent, impudent, inexcusable, inquisitive, insolent, insulting, licentious, lofty, madbrain, madbrained, madcap, meddlesome, meddling, nosy, obtrusive, officious, outrageous, overconfident, overpresumptuous, overweening, pompous, presuming, pretentious, prideful, procacious, proud, prying, pushful, pushing, pushy, saucy, self-appointed, self-asserting, self-assertive, self-assured, self-conceited, self-elect, self-satisfied, smug, snoopy, supercilious, temerarious, uppish, uppity, wild, wild-ass, would-beROGET THESAURUS
Presumptuous
Insolence
N insolence, haughtiness, arrogance, airs, overbearance, domineering, tyranny, impertinence, sauciness, flippancy, dicacity, petulance, procacity, bluster, swagger, swaggering, bounce, terrorism, assumption, presumption, beggar on horseback, usurpation, impudence, assurance, audacity, hardihood, front, face, brass, shamelessness, effrontery, hardened front, face of brass, assumption of infallibility, saucebox, insolent, haughty, arrogant, imperious, magisterial, dictatorial, arbitrary, high-handed, high and mighty, contumelious, supercilious, overbearing, intolerant, domineering, overweening, high-flown, flippant, pert, fresh, cavalier, saucy, forward, impertinent, malapert, precocious, assuming, would-be, bumptious, bluff, brazen, shameless, aweless, unblushlng, unabashed, brazen, boldfaced-, barefaced-, brazen-faced, dead to shame, lost to shame, impudent, audacious, presumptuous, free and easy, devil-may-care, rollicking, jaunty, janty, roistering, blustering, hectoring, swaggering, vaporing, thrasonic, fire eating, full of sound and fury, with a high hand, ex cathedra, one's bark being worse than his bite, beggars mounted run their horse to death, quid times? Caesarem vehis, wagahai wa (expressing superiority).
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