Word Meanings - ASSUMING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pretentious; taking much upon one's self; presumptuous. Burke.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ASSUMING)

• Pompous
• Magnificent
• gorgeous
• splendid
• showy
• sumptuous
• ostentatious
• stately
• lofty
• grand
• bombastic
• turgid
• stiff
• Inflated
• pretentious
• coxcombical
• assuming

Related words: (words related to ASSUMING)

• MAGNIFICENTLY
  In a Magnificent manner.
• ASSUMABLE
  That may be assumed.
• SPLENDIDIOUS
  Splendid.
• INFLATE
  Blown in; inflated. Chaucer.
• GRANDEUR
  The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action. Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye.
• GORGEOUS
  Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent. Cloud-land, gorgeous land. Coleridge. Gogeous as the sun at midsummer. Shak. -- Gor"geous*ly, adv. -- Gor"geous*ness, n. (more info) luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff,
• STIFFENER
  One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.
• GRANDEESHIP
  The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship. H. Swinburne.
• INFLATED
  Hollow and distended, as a perianth, corolla, nectary, or pericarp. Martyn. 4. Distended or enlarged fictitiously; as, inflated prices, etc. (more info) 1. Filled, as with air or gas; blown up; distended; as, a balloon inflated with gas. 2. Turgid;
• GRANDMA; GRANDMAMMA
  A grand mother.
• GRANDUNCLE
  father's or mother's uncle.
• STIFFENING
  1. Act or process of making stiff. 2. Something used to make anything stiff. Stiffening order , a permission granted by the customs department to take cargo or ballast on board before the old cargo is out, in order to steady the ship.
• GRANDIFIC
  Making great. Bailey.
• INFLATER
  One who, or that which, inflates; as, the inflaters of the stock exchange.
• ASSUMEDLY
  By assumption.
• GRANDILOQUENT
  Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.
• GRANDNESS
  Grandeur. Wollaston.
• GRANDILOQUENCE
  The use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; -- usually in a bad sense. The sin of grandiloquence or tall talking. Thackeray,
• ASSUMER
  One who assumes, arrogates, pretends, or supposes. W. D. Whitney.
• SPLENDIDLY
  In a splendid manner; magnificently.
• NON ASSUMPSIT
  The general plea or denial in an action of assumpsit.
• SARGASSUM
  A genus of algæ including the gulf weed.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• SELF-AGGRANDIZEMENT
  The aggrandizement of one's self.
• RESTIFF
  Restive.
• RESTIFFNESS
  Restiveness.