Bumptious
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈbʌmpʃəs/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Bumptious is an adjective meaning (UK) Obtrusively pushy; self-important; self-assertive to a pretentious extreme.
Meaning
(UK) Obtrusively pushy; self-important; self-assertive to a pretentious extreme.
Example Sentences
She could stand it no longer. 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.
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.
No doubt of it, Edmund was at grips with that bumptious little hairy dog. They were going it at the very top note of sadistic fury, screaming and snip-snapping in such a lightning mixture of black and white murder that the eye could not follow it.
Synonyms for bumptious
Depending on context, synonyms include forward, self-assertive.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include self-assertive, forward, obtrusive, pushy, overbumptious, pushful.
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