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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lively, bold |
| Synonyms: | animated, audacious, brash, brazen, breezy, bright, brisk, cheeky*, dapper, daring, dashing, disrespectful, flip*, flippant, forward, fresh, gay, impertinent, impudent, insolent, jaunty, keen, nervy, perky, presumptuous, sassy*, saucy*, smart, smart-alecky, spirited, sprightly, vivacious, wise |
| Antonyms: | dull, humble, lifeless |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | presumptuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | self-confident |
| Synonyms: | arrogant, audacious, bold, cheeky*, conceited, confident, contumelious, egotistic, foolhardy, forward, fresh, insolent, overconfident, overfamiliar, overweening, pompous, presuming, pretentious, pushy, rash, rude, self-assertive, self-assured, self-satisfied, smug, supercilious, uppity |
| Notes: | presumptive means 'based on a presumption, based on grounds of probability' while presumptuous means 'assuming an unwarranted, unauthorized responsibility' |
| Antonyms: | humble, modest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rude |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disrespectful, rough |
| Synonyms: | abrupt, abusive, bad-mannered, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, blunt, boorish, brusque, brutish, cheeky, churlish, coarse, crabbed, crude, curt, discourteous, graceless, gross, gruff, ignorant, illiterate, impertinent, impolite, impudent, inconsiderate, insolent, insulting, intrusive, loutish, low, obscene, offhand, peremptory, raw, savage, scurrilous, short, surly, uncivil, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, uneducated, ungracious, unmannerly, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar, wild |
| Antonyms: | kind, mannerly, nice, polite, respectful |
| Main Entry: | sassy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | impudent |
| Synonyms: | arrant, audacious, bold, brassy, brazen, cheeky*, discourteous, disrespectful, flip*, flippant, fresh, insolent, mouthy, overbold, rude, saucy*, smart-alecky, smart-mouthed, wise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | saucy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disrespectful |
| Synonyms: | arch, audacious, bold, brash, brazen, cheeky*, combative, contumelious, flip*, flippant, forward, fresh, impertinent, impudent, insolent, intrusive, meddlesome, nervy, obtrusive, pert, presumptuous, rude, sassy, smart, smart-alecky, smug, snippy, volatile, weisenheiming, wise |
| Antonyms: | kind, polite, respectful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | shameless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | corrupt, indecent |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, arrant, audacious, barefaced, bold, brash, brassy, brazen, cheeky*, depraved, dissolute, flagrant, forward, hardened, high-handed, immodest, immoral, improper, impudent, incorrigible, insolent, lewd, outrageous, overbold, presumptuous, profligate, reprobate, rude, unabashed, unashamed, unblushing, unchaste, unprincipled, wanton |
| Antonyms: | decent, good, moral |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | snotty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | arrogant |
| Synonyms: | cheeky, cocky, conceited, fresh, haughty, high and mighty, highfalutin', impertinent, know-it-all, la-de-da, pompous, pretentious, puffed up, sassy, self-important, smart-alecky, smug, snippy, snobby, snooty, stuck-up, uppity |
| Main Entry: | unafraid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fearless |
| Synonyms: | assured, ballsy, bold, brassy, brave, cheeky, cocky, confident, courageous, daring, dashing, dauntless, gallant, game, gritty, gutsy, having nerves of steel, heroic, nervy, plucky, spunky, sure, undaunted, unfearing, unfrightened, unscared, unshakable, valiant |
| Main Entry: | uppity |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | arrogant |
| Synonyms: | audacious, bossy, bragging, cavalier, cheeky, cocky, conceited, egotistic, haughty, high and mighty, high falutin, know-it-all, overbearing, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, puffed up, self-important, smug, snobbish, snooty, snotty, stuck up, superior, vain |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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