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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
aggressive, bold, busy, busybody, demanding, dictatorial, forward, impertinent, importunate, inquisitive, insistent, interfering, intruding, intrusive, meddlesome, meddling, nosy, obtrusive, persistent, presumptuous, prying, pushing, pushy, self-appointed, snoopy
Dictionary Results for officious:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
officious
    adj 1: 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" [syn: interfering,
           meddlesome, meddling, officious, busy,
           busybodied]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Officious \Of*fi"cious\, a. [L. officiosus: cf. F. officieux.
   See Office.]
   1. Pertaining to, or being in accordance with, duty. [R.]
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            If there were any lie in the case, it could be no
            more than an officious and venial one. --Note on
                                                  Gen. xxvii.
                                                  (Douay
                                                  version).
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   2. Disposed to serve; kind; obliging. [Archaic]
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            Yet not to earth are those bright luminaries
            Officious.                            --Milton.
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            They were tolerably well bred, very officious,
            humane, and hospitable.               --Burke.
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   3. Importunately interposing services; intermeddling in
      affairs in which one has no concern; meddlesome.
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            You are too officious
            In her behalf that scorns your services. --Shak.
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   Syn: Impertinent; meddling. See Impertinent.
        [1913 Webster] -- Of*fi"cious*ly, adv. --
        Of*fi"cious*ness, n.
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