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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. excessively forward;
- Example: "an assumptive person"
- Example: "on a subject like this it would be too assuming for me to decide"
- Example: "the duchess would not put up with presumptuous servants"
[syn: assumptive, assuming, presumptuous]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster] A class of presumptuous men, whom age has not made cautious, nor adversity wise. --Buckminster. [1913 Webster] 2. Founded on presumption; as, a presumptuous idea. "False, presumptuous hope." --Milton. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Syn: Overconfident; foolhardy; rash; presuming; forward; arrogant; insolent. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

presumptuous adj 1: 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, presumptuous]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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