officious

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English

Definitions

adjective

Obliging, attentive, eager to please.
Offensively intrusive or interfering in offering advice and services.

Related words

Synonyms

meddlesome interfering meddling intrusive busy busybodied intermeddler intermeddling zealous callous informal unofficial ciceroni superofficious overobsequious overofficious

Associated

bystander reasonable johnson legal person test term character

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