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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

acceptable, adventurous, arrogant, assuming, audacious, bold, brash, brazen, bumptious, busy, busybody, cheeky, cold, complacent, confident, contumelious, cool, daredevil, daring, death-defying, disdainful, egotistical, familiar, fire-eating, foolhardy, forward, gay, harebrained, hubristic, immodest, impertinent, impudent, inexcusable, inquisitive, insolent, insulting, licentious, lofty, madbrain, madbrained, madcap, meddlesome, meddling, nosy, obtrusive, officious, outrageous, overconfident, overpresumptuous, overweening, pompous, presuming, pretentious, prideful, procacious, proud, prying, pushful, pushing, pushy, saucy, self-appointed, self-asserting, self-assertive, self-assured, self-conceited, self-elect, self-satisfied, smug, snoopy, supercilious, temerarious, uppish, uppity, wild, wild-ass, would-be

Dictionary Results for presumptuous:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

presumptuous
    adj 1: 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" [syn: assumptive, assuming, presumptuous]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Presumptuous \Pre*sump"tu*ous\ (?; 135), a. [L. praesumptuosus:
   cf. F. pr['e]somptueux, OF. also presumptuous. See
   Presumption.]
   1. Full of presumption; presuming; overconfident or
      venturesome; audacious; rash; taking liberties unduly;
      arrogant; insolent; as, a presumptuous commander;
      presumptuous conduct.
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            A class of presumptuous men, whom age has not made
            cautious, nor adversity wise.         --Buckminster.
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   2. Founded on presumption; as, a presumptuous idea. "False,
      presumptuous hope." --Milton.
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   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.
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   Syn: Overconfident; foolhardy; rash; presuming; forward;
        arrogant; insolent.
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