Officious
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /əˈfɪʃəs/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Officious is an adjective meaning Offensively intrusive or interfering in offering advice and services.
Meaning
Offensively intrusive or interfering in offering advice and services.
More Meanings
- (obsolete) Obliging, attentive, eager to please.
Example Sentences
Elizabeth's misery increased, at such unnecessary, such officious attention!
The help tended to be officious, the rules, if heeded, restrictive, and the management meddlesome.
‘It is essential that the nation become accustomed to managing its own affairs, so that it will emerge from this state of infancy in which an anxious and officious government attempts to keep the people’.
Synonyms for officious
Depending on context, synonyms include intrusive, busy, meddlesome, interfering, busybodied.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include meddlesome, interfering, intrusive, busy, busybodied, intermeddler.
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