Presumptuous

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: pre=sump=tu=ous

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-be

ROGET 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).