Dictionary

presumptuous en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /pɹəˈzʌmp.tʃuː.əs/ (UK)
• (US) audio
• /pɹəˈzʌmp.ʃəs/ (UK, informal)
• /pɹiˈzʌmpt͡ʃuəs/ (US)
• /pɹəˈzʌmp.tjuː.əs/ (UK)
• /pɹəˈzʌmpt͡ʃuəs/ (US)
• /pɹəˈzʌmp.ʃəs/ (US, informal)

Etymology

From Middle English presumptuous, borrowed from Old French presumpcieus, presumptieus, presumptuos and its etymon Medieval Latin praesūmptuōsus.

Meanings

1. Making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions, often out of arrogance or excessive self-confidence, and thus exceeding appropriate or rightful limits.
   • The powers of the world were making ready to crush the presumptuous France of the Jacobins, and the France of King and Aristocracy would be restored. 1904 May, Winston Churchill, chapter XIV, in The Crossing, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, book III (Louisiana), page 576:
   • Keepe back thy seruant also from presumptuous sinnes, let them not haue dominion ouer me: then shall I be vpright, and I shalbe innocent from the great transgression. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 19:13:
   • Preſumptuous Prieſt, this place cōmands my patiēce, / Or thou ſhould'ſt finde thou haſt dis-honor'd me. 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 105, column 2:
   • "Of course," said Felix, "I suggest nothing; it would be very presumptuous in me to advise you. But I think there is no doubt about the fact." 1878 July–October, Henry James, Jr., chapter IV, in The Europeans. A Sketch. […], volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1878, →OCLC, pages 166–167:
   • Dorothea checked herself suddenly with self-rebuke for the presumptuous way in which she was reckoning on uncertain events, but she was spared any inward effort to change the direction of her thoughts by the appearance of a cantering horseman round a turning of the road. 1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter III, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I:
   • Is this the proud presumtious Esquire of the North, / That would not yeeld his prisoner to my Queen 1596, [attributed to William Shakespeare; Thomas Kyd], The Raigne of King Edward the Third: […], London: […] [T. Scarlet] for Cuthbert Burby, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

Forms

Deriveds

presumptuously · presumptuousness · presumptuosity · unpresumptuous · overpresumptuous

Relateds

presume · presumption

Synonyms

turgid · haughty · flaunting · uppity · flatulent · stout · high and mighty · tumid · hoity-toity · snobbish · domineering · egotistical · highfalutin · hankty · stuck up · buggish · upstage · thrasonical · holier-than-thou · hubristic · blustery · full of oneself · haut · sanctimonious · snotty · thrasonic · la-di-da · presumptive · airy · snooty · self-important · bombastic · big-headed · conceited · pompous · boastful · high-handed · high-hat · overconfident · uppy · chesty · vain · overbearing · imperious · disdainful · grandiose · presumptuous · presuming · uppish · puffed up · pretentious · arrogant · entitled · biggity · overweening · orgulous · turgescent · toploftical · supercilious · hubristical · inflated · ostentatious · cocky · toplofty · lordly · authoritarian · glorious · forward · priggish · insolent · haught

Translations (76)

bg дързък (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · it sfrontato (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · cmn 武斷的 /武断的 (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · ru на́глый (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · mi whakametometo (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · mi pokake (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · hu vakmerő (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · hu önhitt (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · mk др́зок (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · gd dàna (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · pl zarozumiały (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · ru де́рзкий (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · ga andóchasach (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · eo bravaĉa (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · cs drzý (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · uk самовпевнений (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · cmn 傲慢的 (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · gd dalm (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · es presuntuoso (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · cmn 越權的 /越权的 (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · de spekulierend (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · hu merész (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · uk зухвалий (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · mk безо́бѕирен (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · es echón (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · it sfacciato (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · hu szemtelen (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · sv förmäten (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · de anmaßend (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · cmn 自大的 (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · hu nagyképű (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · gl fachendoso (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · nl aanmatigend (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · et häbematu (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · uk зарозумілий (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · pl arogancki (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · ja 図々しい (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · sk drzý (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · fr outrecuidant (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · bg самоуверен (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · mi tahataha (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · la praetumidus (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · ga dána (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · es jechón (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · cs troufalý (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · sco bauld (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · ru наха́льный (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · hu arcátlan (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · sk opovážlivý (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · ga iomarcach (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · mk на́хален (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · ru самонаде́янный (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · ja 厚かましい (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · sv övermodig (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · cmn 放肆的 (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · hu elbizakodott (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · fi julkea (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · pt presunçoso (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · et jultunud (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · he שחצן (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · mk на́дуен (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · mn давлиун (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · he יהיר (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · ca presumptuós (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · cs domýšlivý (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · he חוצפן (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · tr küstah (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · de überheblich (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · fi röyhkeä (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · fr présomptueux (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · ru самоуве́ренный (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · ga dalba (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · pl bezczelny (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · ta முந்திரிக்கொட்டை (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · cmn 冒昧的 (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right) · it presuntuoso (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)