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Bumptiousness is the name of the quality: being too proud of your abilities in a way that other people. You can talk about someone’s bumptiousness the way you talk about their kindness or their — it names the trait, not one single action. It is still a rather formal, slightly old word, and it is always as a judgement.
自命不凡、自以為是
組成bumptious + -ness, the ending that turns an adjective into a noun for a quality.
同家族的字
- bumptiousthe adjective this noun is built from
- bumptiouslythe adverb for the same manner
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
bumptiousnessnoun
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The state of being bumptious; conceitedness.
- Gerald's special mixture of laziness and ambition seemed to crystallize under the camera into brutal bumptiousness.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。