presumptuous

英 [prɪˈzʌmptʃuəs]

美 [prɪˈzʌmptʃuəs]

adj.  自负的; 冒昧的; 放肆的

TOEFL

BNC.20705 / COCA.19469

牛津词典

adj.

• 自负的；冒昧的；放肆的
  too confident, in a way that shows a lack of respect for other people

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 放肆的；冒昧的；自作主张的
  If you describe someone or their behaviour aspresumptuous, you disapprove of them because they are doing something that they have no right or authority to do.
  1. It would be presumptuous to judge what the outcome will be.
     现在就判断结果将会怎样未免有些冒昧。

英英释义

adj

• excessively forward
  1. an assumptive person
  2. on a subject like this it would be too assuming for me to decide
  3. the duchess would not put up with presumptuous servants
  Synonym:assumptiveassuming

双语例句

• The absence of presumptuous self-conceit in Tito made him feel all the more defenceless under prospective obloquy.
  蒂托由于缺乏自以为是的傲气，因此在声名扫地的前景之下更加显得束手无策。
• Aren't people like yourselves being a little bit presumptuous?
  像你们这样的人难道不是有点自以为是吗？
• And as I know that many have written on this point, I expect I shall be considered presumptuous in mentioning it again, especially as in discussing it I shall depart from the methods of other people.
  我所知，很多都写在这一点上，我希望我再次提到它应被视为放肆，尤其是因为在讨论这个问题，我会离开其他人的方法。
• I hope you'll not think me presumptuous.
  希望你不会认为我太放肆。
• I believe it would be presumptuous to take this as a sign that Sarah thinks your puppy is ugly.
  我相信这将是冒昧作为一个迹象，表明你的小狗莎拉认为这是丑陋的。
• One should never be presumptuous and opinionated.
  切不可自以为是。
• Someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous.
  不重要却厚颜无耻专横的人。
• I don't like you being so presumptuous.
  我不喜欢你这么专横无礼。
• Now, swell up like a gobbler and tell me that he is worth a thousand blackguards like me and that I should n't dare to be so presumptuous as to feel either pity or contempt for him.
  你现在可以像火鸡那样叫唤，你可以告诉我像我这样的流氓，一千个顶不上他一个，怎么竟敢如此狂妄，竟然对他表示怜悯或鄙视呢。
• Is this inference too presumptuous?
  这种推论是否太抽象了？