Bumptious
/ˈbʌmpʃəs/ adj
adj ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Obtrusively pushy; self-important; self-assertive to a pretentious extreme. UK
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Adjective
- 1 offensively self-assertive wordnet
Example
More examples"From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied."
Etymology
Probably from bump, on the pattern of words like fractious or presumptious.