jumped-up
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9.8
- adjective
- /ˈdʒʌmpt ʌp/
- Offensive
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engreído
- I can't stand his jumped-up attitude since the promotion.
Examples
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After his sudden promotion, he started acting like a jumped-up manager, giving orders to everyone around him.
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His jumped-up attitude annoyed those who had worked there for years.
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Some colleagues think she's just a jumped-up assistant who doesn't deserve the promotion.
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The tabloids dismissed him as a jumped-up manager who owed everything to luck.
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That jumped-up manager thinks he can boss everyone around.
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Nobody likes the jumped-up receptionist who thinks she holds all the power in the office.
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His jumped-up attitude since he became team leader has annoyed many of his colleagues.
Synonyms
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8.6
Claiming to be more important or successful than you are
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9.8
Too much pride and confidence that makes people dislike you
Antonyms
How Arrogant
Surface Forms
Morphology
jumped-up = jump (semi-transparent) = up + jump + ed
The components 'jump(ed)' + 'up' suggest a rapid rise, which relates to the sense, but the idiomatic extension to 'pretentiously self-important' is not fully predictable for an average learner. [Postprocessing: moved 'up' from base_words to prefix]
Etymology
Jumped-up comes from the image of someone who has jumped up, that is, 'suddenly moved up' in job or social position. A helpful way to remember is to think of the word upstart: a 'jumped-up' person acts more important than they really are after a quick rise, so the word means behaving as if of higher rank.