bumptious
Syllables: bump·tious/ˈbʌmpʃəs/
bumptious adjective: obtrusively pushy; self-important; self-assertive to a pretentious extreme.
Adjective
bumptious (comparative more bumptious, superlative most bumptious)
- Obtrusively pushy; self-important; self-assertive to a pretentious extreme.
- […1887, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet”, in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward, Lock & Co., part I (Being a reprint from the reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., […])...
- 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.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
bumptious meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
bumptious in Tamil
- வெறுப்பான அளவிற்குத் தன்முனைப்புமிக்க
bumptious in Urdu
- جسور, مغرور
bumptious in Malayalam
- conceited, self-important, arrogant
- ഉദ്ധതമായ, അഹംഭാവിയായ, ദുരഹങ്കാരിയായ, അഹംഭാവമുള്ള, തലക്കനമുള്ള, ഗർവ്വിതം
Examples of bumptious in a sentence
- It was full of prying old women, she said, who stared in one's face, and of bumptious young men who trod on one's toes.1928, Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, London: The Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished as Orlando: A Biography (eBook no....
- No doubt of it, Edmund was at grips with that bumptious little hairy dog.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 140:
Forms of bumptious
| comparative | more bumptious |
|---|---|
| superlative | most bumptious |
Origin of bumptious
Probably from bump, on the pattern of words like fractious or presumptious.
Words formed from bumptious
Questions about bumptious
- What does bumptious mean?
- Bumptious means obtrusively pushy; self-important; self-assertive to a pretentious extreme.
- What is bumptious in Tamil?
- Bumptious in Tamil is வெறுப்பான அளவிற்குத் தன்முனைப்புமிக்க. See Bumptious meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use bumptious in a sentence?
- It was full of prying old women, she said, who stared in one's face, and of bumptious young men who trod on one's toes.
- What part of speech is bumptious?
- Bumptious is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce bumptious?
- Bumptious is pronounced /ˈbʌmpʃəs/.
Words near bumptious in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: bumptious (page history and authors); bumptious (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bumptious (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bumptious (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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