286 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ əfˈɪʃəs], [ əfˈɪʃəs], [ ə_f_ˈɪ_ʃ_ə_s]

Similar words for officious:

• authoritative (adjective)
• busy (adjective)
• familiar (adjective)
• interfering (adjective)
• intrusive (adjective)
• meddlesome (adjective)
• obtrusive (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• overbearing (adjective)
• pushy (adjective)
• unofficial (adjective)
• busybodied (noun)
• interfering (noun)
• meddling (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words (noun)

How to use "officious" in context?

Paraphrases for officious

Synonyms for Officious:

• adj.

  • authoritative (adjective)
  • authoritarian,
  • dictatorial,
  • imperative,
  • imperious,
  • dominating,
  • confident,
  • assertive,
  • doctrinaire,
  • dogmatic,
  • self-assured,
  • peremptory,
  • imposing,
  • officious,
  • decisive,
  • commanding,
  • masterly.
  • busy (adjective)
  • prying,
  • troublesome,
  • curious,
  • butting in,
  • snoopy,
  • stirring.
  • familiar (adjective)
  • easy,
  • palsy-walsy,
  • tight,
  • confidential,
  • free,
  • open,
  • informal,
  • sociable,
  • unconstrained,
  • affable,
  • dear,
  • close,
  • amicable,
  • impudent,
  • nervy,
  • near,
  • unreserved,
  • gracious,
  • relaxed,
  • cordial,
  • smart,
  • fresh,
  • comfortable,
  • Presuming,
  • chummy,
  • cozy,
  • thick,
  • unceremonious,
  • neighborly,
  • genial,
  • wise,
  • intimate,
  • presumptuous,
  • snug.
  • interfering (adjective)
  • interference,
  • nosiness.
  • intrusive (adjective)
  • interfering,
  • meddlesome,
  • forward,
  • nosy,
  • intrusive,
  • invasive.
  • meddlesome (adjective)
  • snooping,
  • Encumbering,
  • Chiseling,
  • mischievous,
  • impeding,
  • Interposing,
  • hindering,
  • tampering,
  • Interrupting,
  • busybody,
  • intruding.
  • obtrusive (adjective)
  • noticeable,
  • jutting,
  • prominent,
  • bulging,
  • protruding,
  • sticking out,
  • projecting.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • obtrusive,
  • kibitzing,
  • buddy-buddy,
  • Familiar,
  • prognathous,
  • sniffy,
  • protuberant,
  • meddlesomeness,
  • Intermeddling,
  • palsy,
  • nebby,
  • pushy,
  • highhanded,
  • free-and-easy,
  • pushful,
  • authoritative,
  • obstructive,
  • busy,
  • unofficial,
  • overbearing.
  • overbearing (adjective)
  • imperial,
  • preponderant,
  • high-and-mighty,
  • paramount,
  • stuffy,
  • predominant,
  • egotistic,
  • sovereign,
  • ascendant,
  • prevalent,
  • uppity,
  • proud,
  • regnant,
  • disdainful.
  • pushy (adjective)
  • ambitious,
  • militant.
  • unofficial (adjective)
  • contraband,
  • unorthodox,
  • casual,
  • unsanctioned,
  • offstage,
  • unauthorized.

• n.

  •
  • humorlessly,
  • substantial,
  • deep,
  • solemn,
  • serious,
  • in earnest,
  • sober,
  • funereal.
  •
  • participate.
  • busybodied (noun)
  • busybodied.
  • interfering (noun)
  • impertinent,
  • self-important.
  • meddling (noun)
  • meddling.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • person,
  • property.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • lighten up,
  • autocratic,
  • stolid,
  • staid.
  •
  • humorless,
  • rude.
  •
  • seriously.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • engaged,
  • importunate,
  • self-appointed,
  • bureaucratic,
  • ease,
  • demanding,
  • obstruct,
  • intrude,
  • meddle,
  • overweening,
  • domineering,
  • advertise,
  • trespasser,
  • Intrusively,
  • anxious,
  • highfalutin,
  • inquisitive,
  • quick,
  • high-handed,
  • pushing,
  • intruder,
  • interfere,
  • officiousness,
  • pretentious,
  • stranger,
  • opinionated,
  • obtrusively,
  • intervene,
  • rest,
  • deputise,
  • impede,
  • dominant,
  • direct,
  • pragmatic,
  • brassy,
  • forcefully,
  • arrogant,
  • deputize,
  • arbitrary,
  • supercilious,
  • overzealous,
  • snooty,
  • oppressive,
  • obnoxious,
  • showy,
  • hectic,
  • superior,
  • frenetic,
  • relaxation,
  • unwanted,
  • easiness,
  • unsought,
  • casualness,
  • forceful,
  • introduce,
  • expeditious,
  • promote,
  • harsh,
  • inquisitively,
  • kindly,
  • diligent,
  • prevent,
  • Familiarity,
  • lordly,
  • interloper,
  • brash,
  • sprightly,
  • insistent,
  • Importune,
  • disturb,
  • masterful,
  • hifalutin,
  • brazen,
  • tough,
  • inject,
  • unwelcome,
  • intrusiveness,
  • tyrannical,
  • hoity-toity,
  • informality,
  • aggressive,
  • exhort,
  • rudely,
  • Overofficious,
  • loud,
  • self-assertive,
  • persistent,
  • cavalier,
  • careful,
  • dictatorially,
  • interject,
  • strict,
  • meddler,
  • disrespectful,
  • wilful,
  • obligingly,
  • cocky,
  • hard,
  • pragmatically,
  • energetic,
  • overbearingly,
  • fussy,
  • raider,
  • mobile,
  • active,
  • haughty,
  • repose,
  • prompt,
  • spry,
  • frenzied,
  • impertinently,
  • pragmatical,
  • agitate,
  • repressive,
  • tamper,
  • bullying,
  • relief,
  • frantic,
  • snotty,
  • insolent,
  • bumptious,
  • cheeky,
  • intercede,
  • magisterial,
  • offensive,
  • comfort,
  • imperiously,
  • phrenetic,
  • brisk,
  • bossily,
  • displace,
  • dominantly,
  • bold,
  • officiously,
  • uncalled-for,
  • invader,
  • despotic,
  • bossy,
  • busily,
  • restless.

How to use "Officious" in context?

Paraphrases for Officious:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    informal, unofficial.