Bumptious

//ˈbʌmpʃəs// adj

adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Obtrusively pushy; self-important; self-assertive to a pretentious extreme. UK

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Adjective
  1. 1
    offensively self-assertive wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
aggressively self-confidentarrogantaudaciousbiggetyboldbrash

Example

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"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.

Related phrases

self assertive

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