presumptuous
adjectiveattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//pɹəˈzʌmp.tʃuː.əs//
- United Kingdom//pɹəˈzʌmp.tjuː.əs//
- United Kingdom//pɹəˈzʌmp.ʃəs//
- United States//pɹəˈzʌmpt͡ʃuəs//
- United States//pɹiˈzʌmpt͡ʃuəs//
Making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions, often out of arrogance or excessive self-confidence, and thus exceeding appropriate or rightful limits.
adjective
- 1
Making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions, often out of arrogance or excessive self-confidence, and thus exceeding appropriate or rightful limits.
Preſumptuous Prieſt, this place cōmands my patiēce, / Or thou ſhould'ſt finde thou haſt dis-honor'd me.
Is this the proud presumtious Esquire of the North, / That would not yeeld his prisoner to my Queen
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.
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.
Etymology
From pre- + Latin sūmptus + -uous, from Middle English presumptuous, borrowed from Old French presumptieus, presumpcieus, presumptuos, from Latin praesumptuosus.
Forms
- comparative
- more presumptuous
- superlative
- most presumptuous
presumptuous · Making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions, often out of arrogance or excessive self-confidence, and thus exceeding appropriate or rightful…
pretend · To speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated…pretended · feigned; counterfeitpretending · The act of imagining; make-believe.