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Word Meanings - MEDDLESOME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Given to meddling; apt to interpose in the affairs of others; officiously intrusive. -- Med"dle*some*ness, n.

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  • 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.

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