Elizabeth's misery increased, at such unnecessary, such officious attention!
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Officious
Synonyms for "officious" (41 found)
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Closest matches (9)
Adjective(2 words)
Strong matches (12)
Related words (20)
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Synonyms
1 entriesderived
8 entriesrelated to
8 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
29 translations across 13 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- πολυπρᾱ́γμων adj (offensively intrusive or interfering)
Bulgarian
2 entries- досаден adj (offensively intrusive or interfering)
- натрапчив adj (offensively intrusive or interfering)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 多管闲事的 adj (offensively intrusive or interfering)
Dutch
3 entries- bereidwillig adj ((obsolete in English) eager to please)
- opdringerig adj (offensively intrusive or interfering)
- overijverig adj ((obsolete in English) eager to please)
Finnish
2 entries- tungetteleva adj (offensively intrusive or interfering)
- virkaintoinen adj (offensively intrusive or interfering)
German
4 entries- aufdringlich adj (offensively intrusive or interfering)
- beflissen adj ((obsolete in English) eager to please)
- bemüht adj ((obsolete in English) eager to please)
- dienstbeflissen adj ((obsolete in English) eager to please)
Irish
1 entries- anchúramach adj (offensively intrusive or interfering)
Māori
2 entries- whakapōrearea adj (offensively intrusive or interfering)
- whawhewhawhe adj (offensively intrusive or interfering)
Norwegian
1 entries- offisiøs adj (offensively intrusive or interfering)
Polish
1 entries- nadgorliwy adj (offensively intrusive or interfering)
Russian
2 entries- навя́зчивый adj (offensively intrusive or interfering)
- назо́йливый adj (offensively intrusive or interfering)
Spanish
3 entries- entrometido adj (offensively intrusive or interfering)
- inoportuno adj (offensively intrusive or interfering)
- oficioso adj (offensively intrusive or interfering)
Swedish
2 entries- beskäftig adj (offensively intrusive or interfering)
- fjäskig adj ((obsolete in English) eager to please)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
‘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’.
Source: wiktionary
The help tended to be officious, the rules, if heeded, restrictive, and the management meddlesome.
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