presumptuous
adjectiveHow many syllables in presumptuous?
There are 4 syllables in the word presumptuous.How to pronounce presumptuous:
Definition of presumptuous:
- presumptuous (adjective):
- bold and insolent
- excessively forward.
- overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) taking liberties
Synonyms for presumptuous:
arrogant
assuming
audacious
bigheaded
bold
bumptious
cavalier
conceited
confident
egoistic
egoistical
egomaniacal
egotistic
egotistical
familiar
foolhardy
forward
haughty
high-and-mighty
immodest
important
impudent
insolent
overconfident
overfamiliar
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Antonyms for presumptuous:
abashed
accommodating
acquiescent
admiring
afraid
aloof
ambitionless
apologetic
appreciative
apprehensive
artless
ashamed
attentive
aw-shucks
backward
bashful
behaved
below
beneath
benevolent
biddable
big
blushing
careful
cautious
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- scenario
- phonographic
- heptameter
- connotation
- elevation
- perspicuous
- recalcitrance
- cooperative
- lugubrious
- lamentation
- contrarily
- overrated
- edacity
- compunctious
- clever-clever
- belletristic
- wishy-washy
- Kozakura
- non sequitur
- equivocal
- circumspectly
- acclimatize
- hyperactive
- ignorable
- antisocial
- previously
- acoustician
- interwoven
- nomenclature
- dubiety
- Ashwathama
- verbosity
- unconfident
- atticism
- excogitate
- passivism
- pestilential
- delectation
- mannerism
- congruity
- elegiac
- overbearing
- emasculate
- desperacy
- onesimus
- beautifully
- quintessential
- affectious
- charismatic
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