Presumptuous

3 definitions found

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

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

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

  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