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presumptuous

adj · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • UK: /pɹəˈzʌmp.tʃuː.əs/
  • UK: /pɹəˈzʌmp.tjuː.əs/
  • UK, informal: /pɹəˈzʌmp.ʃəs/
  • US: /pɹəˈzʌmpt͡ʃuəs/
  • US: /pɹiˈzʌmpt͡ʃuəs/
  • US, informal: /pɹəˈzʌmp.ʃəs/
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adj

Meaning 1

Making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions, often out of arrogance or excessive self-confidence, and thus exceeding appropriate or rightful limits.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

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

Antonyms: none provided

2

adjective satellite

Meaning 2

excessively forward

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • 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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: assumptive, assuming

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From pre- + Latin sūmptus + -uous, from Middle English presumptuous, borrowed from Old French presumptieus, presumpcieus, presumptuos, from Latin praesumptuosus.

Across languages

Translations

76 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: дързък (dǎrzǎk) — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Bulgarian: самоуверен (samouveren) — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Catalan: presumptuós — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Chinese Mandarin: 傲慢的 (àomàn de) — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Chinese Mandarin: 越權的 /越权的 (yuèquán de) — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Chinese Mandarin: 自大的 (zìdà de) — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Chinese Mandarin: 武斷的 /武断的 (wǔduàn de) — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Chinese Mandarin: 放肆的 (fàngsì de) — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Chinese Mandarin: 冒昧的 (màomèi de) — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Czech: domýšlivý — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Czech: troufalý — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Czech: drzý — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Dutch: aanmatigend — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Esperanto: bravaĉa — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Estonian: jultunud — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Estonian: häbematu — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Finnish: julkea — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Finnish: röyhkeä — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • French: outrecuidant — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • French: présomptueux — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Galician: fachendoso — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • German: anmaßend — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • German: spekulierend — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • German: überheblich — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Hebrew: יהיר — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Hebrew: שחצן — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Hebrew: חוצפן — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Hungarian: merész — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Hungarian: arcátlan — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Hungarian: elbizakodott — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Hungarian: önhitt — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Hungarian: szemtelen — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Hungarian: vakmerő — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Hungarian: nagyképű — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Irish: dána — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Irish: iomarcach — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Irish: andóchasach — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Irish: dalba — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Italian: sfrontato — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Italian: sfacciato — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Italian: presuntuoso — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Japanese: 図々しい (zūzūshii) — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Japanese: 厚かましい (atsukamashii) — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Latin: praetumidus — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Macedonian: др́зок (dŕzok) — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Macedonian: на́хален (náhalen) — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Macedonian: безо́бѕирен (bezóbdziren) — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Macedonian: на́дуен (náduen) — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Māori: whakametometo — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Māori: tahataha — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Māori: pokake — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Mongolian: давлиун (davliun) — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Polish: bezczelny — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Polish: zarozumiały — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Polish: arogancki — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Portuguese: presunçoso — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Russian: самонаде́янный (samonadéjannyj) — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Russian: наха́льный (naxálʹnyj) — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Russian: де́рзкий (dérzkij) — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Russian: самоуве́ренный (samouvérennyj) — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Russian: на́глый (náglyj) — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Scots: bauld — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Scottish Gaelic: dalm — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Scottish Gaelic: dàna — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Slovak: drzý — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Slovak: opovážlivý — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Spanish: presuntuoso — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Spanish: echón — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Spanish: jechón — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Swedish: förmäten — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Swedish: övermodig — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Tamil: முந்திரிக்கொட்டை (muntirikkoṭṭai) — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Turkish: küstah — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Ukrainian: самовпевнений (samovpevnenyj) — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Ukrainian: зарозумілий (zarozumilyj) — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right
  • Ukrainian: зухвалий (zuxvalyj) — making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right