Words and phrases that have a meaning related to officious: (143 results)
Often used in the same context:
pompous, humorless, overbearing, pedantic, obsequious, prissy, nosy, bossy, doltish, pushy, haughty, brusque, pernickety, supercilious, snooty, priggish, brusk, obnoxious, obstreperous, meddlesome, fastidious, condescending, weaselly, pettifogging, zealous, censorious, amiable, uptight, uncouth, crabby, genial, contemptuous, snobbish, surly, irascible, solicitous, punctilious, disdainful, mousy, irritating, imperious, snippy, obtuse, truculent, polite, arrogant, grumpy, gruff, waspish, bumbling, curt, insolent, dutiful, bumptious, grouchy, fussy, snappish, chatty, unamused, rude, choleric, bureaucratic, droll, boorish, argumentative, smug, unctuous, curmudgeonly, annoying, charmless, timorous, slovenly, overzealous, snotty, straitlaced, impertinent, dotty, buffoonish, avuncular, oafish, scatty, cantankerous, verbose, uncomprehending, obstinate, gormless, politically correct, crotchety, obstructive, omniscient, deferential, schoolmasterly, sanctimonious, foppish, domineering, unmannerly, complaisant, stuffy, irksome, dimwitted, rebarbative, ornery, armbands, aurora, aviary, ballroom, beginning, blazers, blotter, boyhood, briskness, canteen, chap, chaps, civilities, claret, comet, cormorants, couriers, dahlias, diligent, dinner, obliging, considerate, disinterested, garrulous, faced, flustered, kind, talkative, kindhearted, presumptuous, sacrificing, tactless, affable, capable
Appears in the definition of:
meddler, officiously
Synonyms:
Also try:busy, busybodied, interfering, intrusive, meddling
— Nouns for officious: interference, zeal, friend, man, person, friends, intermeddling, manner, meddling, people, voice, more...
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