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Found 2 items, similar to officious.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: officious
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” [syn:
interfering,
meddlesome,
meddling,
busy,
busybodied]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Officious
Officious
\Of*fi"cious\, a. [L. officiosus: cf. F. officieux.
See
Office.]
1. Pertaining to, or being in accordance with, duty. [R.]
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If there were any lie in the case, it could be no
more than an officious and venial one. --Note on
Gen. xxvii.
(Douay
version).
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2. Disposed to serve; kind; obliging. [Archaic]
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Yet not to earth are those bright luminaries
Officious. --Milton.
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They were tolerably well bred, very officious,
humane, and hospitable. --Burke.
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3. Importunately interposing services; intermeddling in
affairs in which one has no concern; meddlesome.
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You are too officious
In her behalf that scorns your services. --Shak.
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Syn: Impertinent; meddling. See
Impertinent.
[1913 Webster] --
Of*fi"cious*ly, adv. --
Of*fi"cious*ness, n.
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