assumptiousadj.
/əˈsʌmʃəs/ rare.
Given to assumption, assuming.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > overweening or presumption > [adjective]
thristec897
overgartc1230
jollya1340
overweening1340
presumptuousa1398
presuming1434
presumptious?a1450
cock-horse1598
overweened1602
presumant1602
presumptive1609
self-assuming1647
presultory1652
assuming1695
pretending1727
engrossinga1797
hubristic1831
superweening1862
assumptious1878
assumptive1879
hubristical1923
1878 Mrs. H. Wood Pomeroy Abbey i. viii ‘When she has shaken down into her place, and’—‘Become less assumptious you would say.’
Derivatives
aˈssumptiousness n. tendency to take too much upon oneself.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > overweening or presumption > [noun]
presumptiona1250
overweena1300
jollitya1340
overweening1340
overhopec1390
surfeitryc1425
presumptuousnessa1450
outrecuidance?c1450
sauciness1534
presumptiousness1550
presume1590
confidence1597
assuming1602
self-assumption1609
overweeningness1621
self-assuming1644
assumingnessa1832
assumptiousness1870
hubris1884
hybris1920
1870 Pall Mall Gaz. 3 June The ‘assumptiousness’ which Mr. Beresford Hope attributed to the First Commissioner of Works.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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adj.1870