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

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

So, to the loud and bumptious anti-Biden chorus that blames him for everything bad, there is no equally loud and bumptious pro-Biden answering chorus speaking as one and giving him credit for everything good. —Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 18 Sep. 2023

Bailey is suitably bumptious but effortful as Harry, but the drama suffers most with the underwritten and over-emoting Holly and Anna. —David Benedict, Variety, 20 June 2023

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