presumptuously

1. 1.

   in a presumptuous manner

   “he presumptuously overstepped the doctor's orders”

Questions about presumptuously

What does presumptuously mean?

presumptuously means "in a presumptuous manner".

How many syllables are in presumptuously?

presumptuously has 5 syllables and divides as pre-sump-tu-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 presumptuously a common word?

presumptuously 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.