Synonyms for officious
əˈfɪʃ əsof·fi·cious

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1. officious

   Active refers to both quickness and constancy of action; in the former sense it is allied with agile, alert, brisk, etc.; in the latter, with busy, diligent, industrious. The active love employment, the busy are actually employed, the diligent and the industrious are habitually busy. The restless are active from inability to keep quiet; their activity may be without purpose, or out of all proportion to the purpose contemplated. The officious are undesirably active in the affairs of others. Compare ALERT; ALIVE; MEDDLESOME.

   Synonyms:
   active, agile, alert, brisk, bustling, busy, diligent, energetic, expeditious, industrious, lively, mobile, nimble, prompt, quick, ready, restless, sprightly, spry, supple, vigorous, wide awake

   Antonyms:
   dull, heavy, idle, inactive, indolent, inert, lazy, quiescent, quiet, slow, sluggish, stupid

   Preposition:
   Active in work, in a cause; for an object, as for justice; with persons or instrumentalities; about something, as about other people's business.

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1. officious

   Synonyms:
   meddling, interfering, pushing, forward, intrusive, intermeddling

   Antonyms:
   backward, negligent, remiss, unofficious, retiring, modest, backward

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1. interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious, busy, busybodiedadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   interfering, busybodied, meddling, meddlesome, fussy, engaged, busy, in use(p)

   Antonyms:
   not intrusive, unintrusive

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1. officiousadjective

   Synonyms:
   meddlesome, interfering, intermeddling, obtrusive, busy, pragmatical

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1. officiousadjective

   Synonyms:
   meddlesome, intrusive, obtrusive, pragmatical, impertinent

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1. List of paraphrases for "officious":

   zealous, callous

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1. Edward Abbey:

   No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.

2. Edward Abbey:

   No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.