Word Meanings - OFFICIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Pertaining to, or being in accordance with, duty. If there were any lie in the case, it could be no more than as officious and venial one. Note on Gen. xxvii. . 2. Disposed to serve; kind; obliging. Yet not to earth are those bright luminaries

Additional info about word: OFFICIOUS

1. Pertaining to, or being in accordance with, duty. If there were any lie in the case, it could be no more than as officious and venial one. Note on Gen. xxvii. . 2. Disposed to serve; kind; obliging. Yet not to earth are those bright luminaries Officious. Milton. They were tolerably well bred, very officious, humane, and hospitable. Burke. 3. Importunately interposing services; intermeddling in affairs in which one has no concern; meddlesome. You are too officious In her behalf that scorns your services. Shak. Syn. -- Impertinent; meddling. See Impertinent. -- Of*fi"cious*ly, adv. -- Of*fi"cious*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OFFICIOUS)

• Pragmatical
• Over-busy
• fussy
• consequential
• officious
• meddlesome

Related words: (words related to OFFICIOUS)

• OFFICIOUS
  1. Pertaining to, or being in accordance with, duty. If there were any lie in the case, it could be no more than as officious and venial one. Note on Gen. xxvii. . 2. Disposed to serve; kind; obliging. Yet not to earth are those bright luminaries
• CONSEQUENTIALNESS
  The quality of being consequential.
• MEDDLESOME
  Given to meddling; apt to interpose in the affairs of others; officiously intrusive. -- Med"dle*some*ness, n.
• PRAGMATICALNESS
  The quality or state of being pragmatical.
• FUSSY
  Making a fuss; disposed to make an unnecessary ado about trifles; overnice; fidgety. Not at all fussy about his personal appearance. R. G. White.
• CONSEQUENTIALLY
  1. With just deduction of consequence; with right connection of ideas; logically. The faculty of writing consequentially. Addison. 2. By remote consequence; not immediately; eventually; as, to do a thing consequentially. South. 3. In a regular
• OVER-BUSY
  Too busy; officious.
• PRAGMATICALLY
  In a pragmatical manner.
• CONSEQUENTIAL
  1. Following as a consequence, result, or logical inference; consequenment. All that is revealed in Scripture has a consequential necessity of being believed . . . because it is of divine authority. Locke. These kind of arguments . . . are highly
• POLYPRAGMATIC; POLYPRAGMATICAL
  Overbusy; officious. Heywood.
• PRAGMATIC; PRAGMATICAL
  skilled in business, especially in law and state affairs, systematic, 1. Of or pertaining to business or to affairs; of the nature of business; practical; material; businesslike in habit or manner. The next day . . . I began to be very pragmatical.
• OVEROFFICIOUS
  Too busy; too ready to intermeddle; too officious. Collier.
• INOFFICIOUSLY
  Not-officiously.
• INCONSEQUENTIALITY
  The state of being inconsequential.
• INOFFICIOUS
  Regardless of natural obligation; contrary to natural duty; unkind; -- commonly said of a testament made without regard to natural obligation, or by which a child is unjustly deprived of inheritance. "The inofficious testament." Blackstone. "An
• INCONSEQUENTIAL
  Not regularly following from the premises; hence, irrelevant; unimportant; of no consequence. Chesterfield. -- In*con`se*quen"tial*ly, adv.
• INTERMEDDLESOME
  Inclined or disposed to intermeddle. -- In`ter*med"dle*some*ness, n.
• UNCONSEQUENTIAL
  Inconsequential. Johnson.