Word Meanings - MEDDLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Meddlesome. Macaulay.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MEDDLING)

• Curious
• Inquiring
• inquisitive
• scrutinizing
• prying
• meddling
• singular
• searching
• interrogative
• peeping
• peering
• rare
• unique
• odd
• recondite
• Officious
• Meddling
• interfering
• pushing
• forward
• intrusive
• intermeddling

Related words: (words related to MEDDLING)

• PEEP SIGHT
  An adjustable piece, pierced with a small hole to peep through in aiming, attached to a rifle or other firearm near the breech; -- distinguished from an open sight.
• MEDDLING
  Meddlesome. Macaulay.
• 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
• INTERMEDDLE
  To meddle with the affairs of others; to meddle officiously; to interpose or interfere improperly; to mix or meddle with. The practice of Spain hath been, by war and by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states. Bacon. Syn. -- To
• INQUISITIVELY
  In an inquisitive manner. The occasion that made him afterwards so inquisitively apply himself to the study of physic. Boyle.
• PRYTANIS
  A member of one of the ten sections into which the Athenian senate of five hundred was divided, and to each of which belonged the presidency of the senate for about one tenth of the year.
• PRYAN
  See PRIAN
• PUSHPIN
  A child's game played with pins. L. Estrange.
• PEERT
  See PEART
• SEARCHLESS
  Impossible to be searched; inscrutable; impenetrable.
• PEERAGE
  1. The rank or dignity of a peer. Blackstone. 2. The body of peers; the nobility, collectively. When Charlemain with all his peerage fell. Milton.
• PEERESS
  The wife of a peer; a woman ennobled in her own right, or by right of marriage.
• UNIQUE
  Being without a like or equal; unmatched; unequaled; unparalleled; single in kind or excellence; sole. -- U*nique"ly, adv. -- U*nique"ness, n.
• PRY
  A lever; also, leverage. Pry pole, the pole which forms the prop of a hoisting gin, and stands facing the windlass.
• SINGULAR
  Existing by itself; single; individual. The idea which represents one . . . determinate thing, is called a singular idea, whether simple, complex, or compound. I. Watts. (more info) 1. Separate or apart from others; single; distinct. Bacon. And
• INQUIRINGLY
  In an inquiring manner.
• INQUIRER
  One who inquires or examines; questioner; investigator. Locke. Expert inquirers after truth. Cowper.
• MEDDLER
  One who meddles; one who interferes or busies himself with things in which he has no concern; an officious person; a busybody.
• PRYTHEE
  See PRITHEE
• INQUIRING
  Given to inquiry; disposed to investigate causes; curious; as, an inquiring mind.
• OUTPEER
  To excel. Shak.
• LEPRY
  Leprosy. Holland.
• SUPERCURIOUS
  Excessively curious or inquisitive. Evelyn.