PRESUMPTUOUS
\pɹɪsˈʌmpt͡ʃuːəs], \pɹɪsˈʌmptʃuːəs], \p_ɹ_ɪ_s_ˈʌ_m_p_tʃ_uː_ə_s]\
Definitions of PRESUMPTUOUS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
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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"
By Princeton University
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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"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By Oddity Software
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Bold; rash; based on a probability.
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Presumptuously.
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Presumptousness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Presumptuously.
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Full of presumption: bold and confident: founded on presumption: willful.
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PRESUMPTUOUSNESS.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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