Definition for Meddling:

• Officious interposition.

Synonyms for Meddling:

• adj.

  •busy (adjective)
  • nebbier,
  • nebbiest,
  • most meddling,
  • more meddling.
  •curious (adjective)
  • more interested,
  • snoopy,
  • investigative,
  • Peering,
  • Disquisitive,
  • inquisitive,
  • Peeping.

• n.

  •
  • intervention,
  • intrusion.
  •act (noun)
  • meddling,
  • tampering.
  •busybodied (noun)
  • busybodied.
  •curiosity (noun)
  • inquiringness,
  • searchings,
  • thirst for knowledge,
  • officiousness,
  • mental acquisitiveness,
  • inquisitiveness,
  • snoopiness,
  • meddlesomeness,
  • inquiring mind,
  • intrusiveness,
  • questioning,
  • interestingness.
  •gossip (noun)
  • in jury,
  • backfence talks,
  • dirty laundries,
  • idle talks,
  • earfuls,
  • back-fence talks,
  • back fence talks,
  • backfence talk,
  • dirty linens,
  • malicious talks,
  • in-jury,
  • back fence talk,
  • dirty washes,
  • in juries.
  •hunt (noun)
  • inter rogation,
  • coursings,
  • houndings,
  • re search,
  • trailings,
  • in quests,
  • re searches,
  • look-sees,
  • inter rogations,
  • pursuings,
  • inter-rogations,
  • in-quest,
  • looksee,
  • in-quests,
  • inter-rogation,
  • sportings,
  • look sees,
  • friskings,
  • pursuances,
  • in quest,
  • looksees.
  •talebearing (noun)
  • Gossipry.

• v.

  •counteracting (verb)
  • offsetting,
  • Neutralizing.
  •deranging (verb)
  • Dislocating,
  • Misplacing,
  • Blurring,
  • Hashing,
  • Displacing,
  • tossing,
  • Disarranging,
  • Ruffling,
  • Disheveling,
  • Convulsing,
  • swirling,
  • Disorganizing,
  • Scrambling,
  • Botching,
  • Roughening,
  • confounding,
  • capsizing,
  • Deranging,
  • disturbing,
  • fermenting,
  • tumbling,
  • confusing,
  • tousling,
  • Rumpling,
  • churning,
  • Mussing,
  • Whisking,
  • Rummaging,
  • roiling,
  • perturbing,
  • rippling,
  • mixing up,
  • scattering,
  • troubling,
  • Muddling,
  • Cluttering,
  • Disordering,
  • Mislaying,
  • upsetting,
  • Messing,
  • whipping,
  • Jumbling,
  • agitating,
  • Discomposing.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • Obtrusion.
  •
  • interference,
  • rude.

Paraphrases for Meddling:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    interfering, interference.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    interventionism, interference.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    interfering.

• Independent

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Entangling, encroaching, speaking, Stepping.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    non-interference.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    involvement, intrusion, encroachment, blending, intrusiveness, influence, non-interference.

Antonyms for Meddling:

• adj.

  • Other antonyms:
    uninvolved, retiring, apathetic, silent, subdued, inhibited, withdrawn, taciturn, restrained, reserved, unobtrusive, hands-off, indifferent, quiet, inattentive, unconcerned, reticent, not intrusive, heedless, unintrusive, reclusive, uninterested, careless.

Meddling Sentence Examples:

• " Meddling fool," he muttered.

• Her brother had plainly shown his conviction that the best treatment would be to leave him without meddling with him any further.

Homophones for Meddling:

• mottling, mental image, metalanguage, modeling, monthlong, mutualness, mental anguish, modelling, middling, mental illness.

Hyponym for Meddling:

• n.

  • act
    change of state.