presumptuous
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- excessively forward
- "the duchess would not put up with presumptuous servants"
Adj
- Making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions, often out of arrogance or excessive self-confidence, and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English presumptuous, borrowed from Old French presumptieus, presumpcieus, presumptuos, from Latin praesumptuosus.
Synonyms
airy, arrogant, assuming, assumptive, authoritarian, big-headed, biggity, blustery, boastful, bombastic, buggish, cocky, conceited, disdainful, domineering, egotistical, entitled, flatulent, flaunting, forward, full of oneself, grandiose, hankty, haught, haughty, haut, high and mighty, high-handed, high-hat, highfalutin, hoity-toity, holier-than-thou, imperious, inflated, insolent, la-di-da, ostentatious, overbearing, overconfident, overweening, pompous, presuming, presumptive, presumptuous, pretentious, priggish, puffed up, sanctimonious, self-important, snobbish, snooty, snotty, stout, stuck up, supercilious, thrasonic, thrasonical, toploftical, toplofty, tumid, turgid, uppish, uppity, uppy, upstage, vain
Scrabble Score: 18
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