It's presumptuous for humans to assume that our task is to do what only God can do.
Source: tatoeba (1901)
Presumptuous
//pɹəˈzʌmpt͡ʃuəs//
Synonyms for "presumptuous" (155 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (31)
Strong matches (47)
Related words (77)
Adjective(33 words)
Related word relations
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1 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesderived
5 entriesrelated to
7 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
69 translations across 29 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- дързък adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
- самоуверен adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
Czech
3 entries- domýšlivý adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
- drzý adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
- troufalý adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
Dutch
1 entries- aanmatigend adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
Esperanto
1 entries- bravaĉa adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
Estonian
2 entries- häbematu adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
- jultunud adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
Finnish
2 entries- julkea adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
- röyhkeä adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
French
2 entries- outrecuidant adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
- présomptueux adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
Galician
1 entries- fachendoso adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
German
3 entries- anmaßend adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
- spekulierend adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
- überheblich adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
Hebrew
3 entries- חוצפן adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
- יהיר adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
- שחצן adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
Hungarian
4 entries- arcátlan adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
- elbizakodott adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
- merész adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
- nagyképű adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
Irish
4 entries- andóchasach adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
- dalba adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
- dána adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
- iomarcach adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
Italian
3 entries- presuntuoso adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
- sfacciato adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
- sfrontato adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
Japanese
2 entries- 厚かましい adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
- 図々しい adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
Latin
1 entries- praetumidus adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
Macedonian
4 entries- безо́бѕирен adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
- др́зок adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
- на́дуен adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
- на́хален adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
Mongolian
1 entries- давлиун adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
Māori
3 entries- pokake adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
- tahataha adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
- whakametometo adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
Polish
3 entries- arogancki adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
- bezczelny adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
- zarozumiały adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
Portuguese
1 entries- presunçoso adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
Russian
4 entries- де́рзкий adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
- на́глый adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
- наха́льный adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
- самонаде́янный adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
Scots
1 entries- bauld adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- dalm adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
- dàna adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
Slovak
2 entries- drzý adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
- opovážlivý adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
Spanish
3 entries- echón adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
- jechón adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
- presuntuoso adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
Swedish
2 entries- förmäten adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
- övermodig adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
Tamil
1 entries- முந்திரிக்கொட்டை adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
Turkish
1 entries- küstah adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
Ukrainian
3 entries- зарозумілий adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
- зухвалий adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
- самовпевнений adj (making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
It would be presumptuous to call myself his replacement, but I could offer some guidance.
Source: tatoeba (327816)
I don't want to be presumptuous.
Source: tatoeba (2033564)
I didn't want to be presumptuous.
Source: tatoeba (2291235)
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