Presumptive (a.) Presumptuous; arrogant.
Presumptively (adv.) By presumption, or supposition grounded or probability; presumably.
Presumptuous (a.) Full of presumption; presuming; overconfident or venturesome; audacious; rash; taking liberties unduly; arrogant; insolent; as, a presumptuous commander; presumptuous conduct.
Presumptuous (a.) Founded on presumption; as, a presumptuous idea.
Presumptuous (a.) Done with hold design, rash confidence, or in violation of known duty; willful.
Presumptuously (adv.) In a presumptuous manner; arrogantly.
Presumptuousness (n.) The quality or state of being presumptuous.
Presupposal (n.) Presupposition.
Presupposed (imp. & p. p.) of Presuppose
Presupposing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Presuppose
Presuppose (v. t.) To suppose beforehand; to imply as antecedent; to take for granted; to assume; as, creation presupposes a creator.
Presupposition (n.) The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption.
Presupposition (n.) That which is presupposed; a previous supposition or surmise.
Presurmise (n.) A surmise previously formed.
Presystolic (a.) Preceding the systole or contraction of the heart; as, the presystolic friction sound.
Pretemporal (a.) Situated in front of the temporal bone.
Pretence (a.) Alt. of Pretenceless
Pretenceful (a.) Alt. of Pretenceless
Pretenceless (a.) See Pretense, Pretenseful, Pretenseless.
Pretended (imp. & p. p.) of Pretend
Pretending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pretend
Pretend (v. t.) To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.
Pretend (v. t.) To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden.
Pretend (v. t.) To hold out, or represent, falsely; to put forward, or offer, as true or real (something untrue or unreal); to show hypocritically, or for the purpose of deceiving; to simulate; to feign; as, to pretend friendship.
Pretend (v. t.) To intend; to design; to plot; to attempt.
Pretend (v. t.) To hold before one; to extend.
Pretend (v. i.) To put in, or make, a claim, truly or falsely; to allege a title; to lay claim to, or strive after, something; -- usually with to.
Pretend (v. i.) To hold out the appearance of being, possessing, or performing; to profess; to make believe; to feign; to sham; as, to pretend to be asleep.
Pretendant (n.) A pretender; a claimant.
Pretended (a.) Making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended friend.
Pretendence (n.) The act of pretending; pretense.
Pretender (n.) One who lays claim, or asserts a title (to something); a claimant.
Pretender (n.) The pretender (Eng. Hist.), the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law.
Pretender (n.) One who pretends, simulates, or feigns.
Pretendership (n.) The character, right, or claim of a pretender.
Pretendingly (adv.) As by right or title; arrogantly; presumptuously.
Pretense (n.) Alt. of Pretence
Pretence (n.) The act of laying claim; the claim laid; assumption; pretension.
Pretence (n.) The act of holding out, or offering, to others something false or feigned; presentation of what is deceptive or hypocritical; deception by showing what is unreal and concealing what is real; false show; simulation; as, pretense of illness; under pretense of patriotism; on pretense of revenging Caesar's death.
Pretence (n.) That which is pretended; false, deceptive, or hypocritical show, argument, or reason; pretext; feint.
Pretence (n.) Intention; design.
Pretensed (a.) Pretended; feigned.
Pretenseful (a.) Abounding in pretenses.
Pretenseless (a.) Not having or making pretenses.
Pretension (n.) The act of pretending, or laying claim; the act of asserting right or title.
Pretension (n.) A claim made, whether true or false; a right alleged or assumed; a holding out the appearance of possessing a certain character; as, pretensions to scholarship.
Pretentative (a.) Fitted for trial beforehand; experimental.
Pretentious (a.) Full of pretension; disposed to lay claim to more than is one's; presuming; assuming.
Preter- () A prefix signifying past, by, beyond, more than; as, preter- mission, a permitting to go by; preternatural, beyond or more than is natural.
Preterhuman (a.) More than human.
Preterient (a.) Passed through; antecedent; previous; as, preterient states.
Preterimperfect (a. & n.) Old name of the tense also called imperfect.
Preterist (n.) One whose chief interest is in the past; one who regards the past with most pleasure or favor.
Preterist (n.) One who believes the prophecies of the Apocalypse to have been already fulfilled.
Preterit (a.) Past; -- applied to a tense which expresses an action or state as past.
Preterit (a.) Belonging wholly to the past; passed by.
Preterit (n.) The preterit; also, a word in the preterit tense.
Preterite (a. & n.) Same as Preterit.
Preteriteness (n.) Same as Preteritness.
Preterition (n.) The act of passing, or going past; the state of being past.
Preterition (n.) A figure by which, in pretending to pass over anything, a summary mention of it is made; as, "I will not say, he is valiant, he is learned, he is just." Called also paraleipsis.
Preterition (n.) The omission by a testator of some one of his heirs who is entitled to a portion.
Preteritive (a.) Used only or chiefly in the preterit or past tenses, as certain verbs.
Preteritness (n.) The quality or state of being past.
Preterlapsed (a.) Past; as, preterlapsed ages.
Preterlegal (a.) Exceeding the limits of law.
Pretermission (n.) The act of passing by or omitting; omission.
Pretermission (n.) See Preterition.
Pretermitted (imp. & p. p.) of Pretermit
Pretermitting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pretermit
Pretermit (v. t.) To pass by; to omit; to disregard.
Preternatural (a.) Beyond of different from what is natural, or according to the regular course of things, but not clearly supernatural or miraculous; strange; inexplicable; extraordinary; uncommon; irregular; abnormal; as, a preternatural appearance; a preternatural stillness; a preternatural presentation (in childbirth) or labor.
Preternaturalism (n.) The state of being preternatural; a preternatural condition.
Preternaturality (n.) Preternaturalness.
Preternaturally (adv.) In a preternatural manner or degree.
Preternaturalness (n.) The quality or state of being preternatural.
Preterperfect (a. & n.) Old name of the tense also called preterit.
Preterpluperfect (a. & n.) Old name of the tense also called pluperfect.
Pretertiary (a.) Earlier than Tertiary.
Pretervection (n.) The act of carrying past or beyond.
Pretex (v. t.) To frame; to devise; to disguise or excuse; hence, to pretend; to declare falsely.
Pretext (n.) Ostensible reason or motive assigned or assumed as a color or cover for the real reason or motive; pretense; disguise.
Pretexture (n.) A pretext.
Pretibial (a.) Situated in front of the tibia.
Pretor (n.) A civil officer or magistrate among the ancient Romans.
Pretor (n.) Hence, a mayor or magistrate.
Pretorial (a.) Pretorian.
Pretorian (a.) Of or pertaining to a pretor or magistrate; judicial; exercised by, or belonging to, a pretor; as, pretorian power or authority.
Pretorian (n.) A soldier of the pretorian guard.
Pretorium (n.) The general's tent in a Roman camp; hence, a council of war, because held in the general's tent.
Pretorium (n.) The official residence of a governor of a province; hence, a place; a splendid country seat.
Pretorship (n.) The office or dignity of a pretor.
Pretorture (v. t.) To torture beforehand.
Prettily (adv.) In a pretty manner.
Prettiness (n.) The quality or state of being pretty; -- used sometimes in a disparaging sense.
Pretty (superl.) Pleasing by delicacy or grace; attracting, but not striking or impressing; of a pleasing and attractive form a color; having slight or diminutive beauty; neat or elegant without elevation or grandeur; pleasingly, but not grandly, conceived or expressed; as, a pretty face; a pretty flower; a pretty poem.
Pretty (superl.) Moderately large; considerable; as, he had saved a pretty fortune.
Pretty (superl.) Affectedly nice; foppish; -- used in an ill sense.
Pretty (superl.) Mean; despicable; contemptible; -- used ironically; as, a pretty trick; a pretty fellow.
Pretty (superl.) Stout; strong and brave; intrepid; valiant.