Officious

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Marked by excessive eagerness in offering unwanted services or advice to others: an officious host; officious attention.
  • adj. Informal; unofficial.
  • adj. Archaic Eager to render services or help others.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. obliging, attentive, eager to please
  • adj. Offensively intrusive or interfering
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Pertaining to, or being in accordance with, duty.
  • adj. Disposed to serve; kind; obliging.
  • adj. Importunately interposing services; intermeddling in affairs in which one has no concern; meddlesome.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Doing or ready to do kind offices; attentive; courteous and obliging; hence, friendly, in a general sense.
  • Having a bearing on or connection with official duties, but not formally official.
  • Forward in tendering services; zealous in interposing uninvited in the affairs of others; meddling; obtrusive.
  • Synonyms Impertinent, Officious (see impertinent); Active, Busy. etc. (see active); meddlesome, obtrusive, interfering, intermeddling, pragmatical.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner
    • Equivalent
    intrusive   
    Cross Reference
    officious will   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    impertinent    meddling    kind    obliging    meddlesome   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    inquisitive    meddlesome    talkative    obsequious    tiresome   
     
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