bumptiously

1. 1.

   in a bumptious manner

   “he behaved rather bumptiously and offended the hostess”

Questions about bumptiously

What does bumptiously mean?

bumptiously means "in a bumptious manner".

How many syllables are in bumptiously?

bumptiously has 4 syllables and divides as bump-ti-ou-sly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is bumptiously a common word?

bumptiously is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.