Word Meanings - PRESUMPTUOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Full of presumption; presuming; overconfident or venturesome; audacious; rash; taking liberties unduly; arrogant; insolent; as, a presumptuous commander; presumptuous conduct. A class of presumptuous men, whom age has not made cautious, nor

Additional info about word: PRESUMPTUOUS

1. Full of presumption; presuming; overconfident or venturesome; audacious; rash; taking liberties unduly; arrogant; insolent; as, a presumptuous commander; presumptuous conduct. A class of presumptuous men, whom age has not made cautious, nor adversity wise. Buckminster. 2. Founded on presumption; as, a presumptuous idea. "False, presumptuous hope." Milton. 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. Syn. -- Overconfident; foolhardy; rash; presuming; forward; arrogant; insolent.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PRESUMPTUOUS)

• Audacious
• Insolent
• adventurous
• venturesome
• presumptuous
• valiant
• rash
• bold
• daring
• reckless
• enterprising
• Fine
• Thin
• minute
• slender
• delicate
• pure
• smooth
• filmy
• gauzy
• keen
• artistic
• choice
• finished
• high
• Grand
• noble
• sensitive
• refined
• generous
• honorable
• excellent
• superior
• pretty
• beautiful
• showy
• elegant
• ostentatious
• nice
• casuistical
• subtle
• Forward
• Advanced
• ready
• eager
• anxious
• obtrusive
• self-assertive
• impertinent
• progressive
• onward
• confident
• Proud
• Arrogant
• haughty
• imperious
• supercilious
• boastful
• vain glorious
• vain
• elated
• self-satisfied
• lofty
• imposing
• magnificent
• self-conscious

Related words: (words related to PRESUMPTUOUS)

• MAGNIFICENTLY
  In a Magnificent manner.
• ENTERPRISER
  One who undertakes enterprises. Sir J. Hayward.
• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• DARKEN
  Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.
• ANXIOUSLY
  In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.
• BEAUTIFUL
  Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing to the sight or the mind. A circle is more beautiful than a square; a square is more beautiful than a parallelogram. Lord Kames. Syn. -- Handsome; elegant; lovely; fair; charming; graceful;
• IMPOSABLE
  Capable of being imposed or laid on. Hammond.
• 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.
• SENSITIVE
  1. Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul. 2. Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action of external objects, or to impressions upon the
• PROUDLING
  A proud or haughty person. Sylvester.
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• ELATION
  A lifting up by success; exaltation; inriation with pride of prosperity. "Felt the elation of triumph." Sir W. Scott.
• DARREIN
  Last; as, darrein continuance, the last continuance.
• GRANDEESHIP
  The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship. H. Swinburne.
• VENTURESOME
  Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n.
• FINISHER
  1. One who finishes, puts an end to, completes, or perfects; esp. used in the trades, as in hatting, weaving, etc., for the workman who gives a finishing touch to the work, or any part of it, and brings it to perfection. O prophet of glad tidings,
• PROUD
  prout, prud, prut, AS. prut; akin to Icel. pruedhr stately, handsome, 1. Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense; as: Possessing or showing too great self-esteem; overrating one's excellences; hence, arrogant; haughty; lordly;
• DARKNESS
  1. The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom. And darkness was upon the face of the deep. Gen. i. 2. 2. A state of privacy; secrecy. What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light. Matt. x. 27. 3. A state of ignorance or
• GRANDMA; GRANDMAMMA
  A grand mother.
• PRELATIST
  One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
• MANDELATE
  A salt of mandelic acid.
• GELATIFICATION
  The formation of gelatin.
• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• PANDARISM
  See SWIFT
• PANDARIZE
  To pander.
• PRELATISM
  Prelacy; episcopacy.