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# presumptuous

«presumptuous» in Mova's school dictionary: **too bold, acting as if you have more right or skill than…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Presumptuous means too bold, acting as if you have more right or skill than you have, and so rude or cheeky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/presumptuous/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a boastful or cheeky character who thinks too highly of himself

### examples

- It was presumptuous of the boy to speak to the king. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/presumptuous/#x1)
- Her presumptuous talk made everyone cross. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/presumptuous/#x2)
- The quill-pig was presumptuous to say he knew all the wolves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/presumptuous/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «presumptuous» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/presumptuous/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.