Bumptious

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bumptious \Bump"tious\, a.
     Self-conceited; forward; pushing. [Colloq.] --Halliwell.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  bumptious
       adj : offensively self-assertive [syn: {self-assertive}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  54 Moby Thesaurus words for "bumptious":
     aggressively self-confident, arrogant, audacious, biggety, brassy,
     brazen, challenging, cheeky, chesty, cocky, cold, conceited,
     contemptuous, contumelious, cool, daring, defiant, defying,
     derisive, disdainful, disregardful, familiar, forward,
     greatly daring, hubristic, immodest, impertinent, impudent,
     insolent, insulting, know-it-all, obtrusive, overpresumptuous,
     overweening, overwise, peacockish, peacocky, perk, perky, pert,
     presuming, presumptuous, procacious, puffed up, pushy,
     regardless of consequences, saucy, self-conceited,
     self-opinionated, smart-alecky, stuck-up, swelled-headed, uppish,
     uppity