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Meddlesome

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Inclined to meddle or interfere.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Inclined or having a tendency to meddle or interfere in other people's business.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Given to meddling; apt to interpose in the affairs of others; officiously intrusive.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Given to meddling; apt to interpose in the affairs of others; inclined to be officiously intrusive.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner

Word Usage

"It had not dawned on anyone at Amazon that they might need to plan for the numbers of warm bodies being brought on board—due to the continual state of emergency, no one had time for that kind of meddlesome accounting."

Equivalent

intrusive

Form

meddlesomely meddlesomeness

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

officious meddling pragmatic busy polypragmatic

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

intrusive officious pry quarrelsome purse-proud