Presumptuous \Pre*sump"tu*ous\ (?; 135), a. [L. praesumptuosus:
cf. F. pr['e]somptueux, OF. also presumptuous. See
Presumption.]
1. Full of presumption; presuming; overconfident or
venturesome; audacious; rash; taking liberties unduly;
arrogant; insolent; as, a presumptuous commander;
presumptuous conduct.
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A class of presumptuous men, whom age has not made
cautious, nor adversity wise. --Buckminster.
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2. Founded on presumption; as, a presumptuous idea. "False,
presumptuous hope." --Milton.
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3. Done with hold design, rash confidence, or in violation of
known duty; willful. "Keep back the servant also from
presumptuous sins." --Ps. xix. 13.
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Syn: Overconfident; foolhardy; rash; presuming; forward;
arrogant; insolent.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
presumptuous
adj : 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" [syn: assumptive, assuming]
WordNet (r) 2.0
77 Moby Thesaurus words for "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-be
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
assuming, assumptive
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