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Officious
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What's The Definition Of Officious?
[adj] intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner; "an interfering old woman"; "bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself"; "busy about other people's business"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Officious: busy | busybodied | interfering | intrusive | meddlesome | meddling Related Terms | Find terms related to Officious: aggressive | bold | busy | busybody | demanding | dictatorial | forward | impertinent | importunate | inquisitive | insistent | interfering | intruding | intrusive | meddlesome | meddling | nosy | obtrusive | persistent | presumptuous | prying | pushing | pushy | self-appointed | snoopy See Also | Officious In Webster's Dictionary \Of*fi"cious\, a. [L. officiosus: cf.F. officieux. See
{Office}.]
1. Pertaining to, or being in accordance with, duty. [R.]
If there were any lie in the case, it could be no
more than as officious and venial one. --Note on
Gen. xxvii.
(Douay
version).
2. Disposed to serve; kind; obliging. [Archaic]
Yet not to earth are those bright luminaries
Officious. --Milton.
They were tolerably well bred, very officious,
humane, and hospitable. --Burke.
3. Importunately interposing services; intermeddling in
affairs in which one has no concern; meddlesome.
You are too officious In her behalf that scorns your
services. --Shak.
Syn: Impertinent; meddling. See {Impertinent}. --
{Of*fi"cious*ly}, adv. -- {Of*fi"cious*ness}, n.
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