Synonyms of bumptious

bumptious

adjective

ˈbəm(p)-shəs 

as in arrogant

having a feeling of superiority that shows itself in an overbearing attitude

a bumptious young man whose family wealth gave him a sense of entitlement

Synonyms & Similar Words

• arrogant
• cavalier
• supercilious
• superior
• domineering
• haughty
• uppity
• important
• sniffy
• pretentious
• high-and-mighty
• pompous
• smug
• hifalutin
• dominant
• assumptive
• uppish
• imperious
• high-handed
• huffy
• chesty
• masterful
• presumptuous
• high-hat
• authoritarian
• self-assertive
• dominating
• peremptory
• overweening
• proud
• highfalutin
• presuming
• impudent
• patronizing
• lordly
• lofty
• self-asserting
• huffish
• condescending
• bossy
• stiff-necked
• boastful
• saucy
• toplofty
• bombastic
• snobbish
• egotistical
• toploftical
• vainglorious
• disdainful
• swaggering
• snooty
• blusterous
• pontifical
• snobby
• magisterial
• cocky
• narcissistic
• egocentric
• hubristic
• conceited
• impertinent
• egoistical
• vain
• blustery
• egotistic
• complacent
• uninhibited
• pontificating
• self-satisfied
• braggart
• egoistic
• self-complacent
• prideful
• stuck-up
• brash
• immodest
• extraverted
• self-centered
• braggy
• self-conceited
• extroverted
• bragging
• unreserved
• self-promoting
• self-flattering
• self-affected
• self-loving
• self-applauding
• self-pleased
• forward
• orgulous

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• humble
• modest
• lowly
• timid
• unpretentious
• bashful
• diffident
• subdued
• shy
• sheepish
• introverted
• passive
• shrinking
• mousy
• demure
• meek
• unassuming
• deferential
• unobtrusive
• unassertive
• acquiescent
• submissive
• compliant
• unaggressive
• unarrogant
• quiet
• yielding
• mousey
• cringing
• self-doubting
• self-critical
• cowering
• reserved
• retiring
• overmodest

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of bumptious

Although not always directly correlated with being bumptious and arrogant, performing at a higher standard than others, and having something to show for it, will always garner attention. —Clare French, Hartford Courant, 16 Mar. 2024

Which is not to imply that the six-year-old, with quite a bumptious career behind him, is of Secretariat's muster. —Guy Martin, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024

The story is a familiar one — a young immigrant fetches up in New York to seek his fortune, only to be buffeted by a bumptious city and cut to the quick by its competitive edge — but Torres reshapes it into something simultaneously more fantastical and far more real. —Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024

Democratic governments should defend their policies before a public free to express itself, even in bumptious and offensive terms. —Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023

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