officious
Meaning of officious
- assertive of authority in a domineering way, especially with regard to trivial matters.
the security people were very officious
late 15th century: from Latin officiosus ‘obliging’, from officium (see office). The original sense was ‘performing its function, efficacious’, whence ‘ready to help or please’ (mid 16th century), later becoming depreciatory (late 16th century).
Information about officious
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of officious
of-fi-cious
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- officious is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
officious synonyms
Meaning interfering:
interfering, meddlesome, meddling, busy, busybodied
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