- Types Of Speech
- You can use officious as a adjective satellite in a sentence.
- About Officious
- A 3 syllables adjective satellite and 9 letters with the letters c, f, i, o, s, and u, 4 consonants, 5 vowels and 3 syllables with the middle letter c. Officious starts with a vowel and ends in a consonant with the starting letters o, of, off, offi, offic, and the ending characters are s, us, ous, ious, cious, . Officious is also a double consonant (ff) word. View the double consonant words list.
- Definition
- Intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner; "an interfering old woman"; "bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself"; "busy about other people''s business"
- Origin/Roots
- Latin
- School Grade
- Officious is set as a sat word that starts with o, ends with s, 3 syllables, 5 vowels and 9 letters.
- Pig Latin
- Officious in Pig Latin is said as "officiousay or officiousway".
- Unigram
- o | f | f | i | c | i | o | u | s
- Bigram
- of | ff | fi | ic | ci | io | ou | us
- Trigram
- off | ffi | fic | ici | cio | iou | ous
- Quadrigram
- offi | ffic | fici | icio | ciou | ious
- Word Gram
| Synonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Aggressive | having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends "an aggressive businessman" "an aggressive basketball player" "he was aggressive and imperious positive in his convictions" "aggressive drivers" |
| Appealing | able to attract interest or draw favorable attention "He added an appealing and memorable figure to popular American mythology"- Vincent Starrett "an appealing sense of humor" "the idea of having enough money to retire at fifty is very appealing" |
| Assuming | excessively forward "an assumptive person" "on a subject like this it would be too assuming for me to decide" "the duchess would not put up with presumptuous servants" |
| Assumptive | accepted as real or true without proof "an assumed increase in population" "the assumed reason for his absence" "assumptive beliefs" "his loyalty was taken for granted" |
| Authoritarian | a person behaves in an tyrannical manner "my boss is a dictator who makes everyone work overtime" |
| Autocratic | characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule having absolute sovereignty "an authoritarian regime" "autocratic government" "despotic rulers" "a dictatorial rule that lasted for the duration of the war" "a tyrannical government" |
| Bold | a typeface with thick heavy lines |
| Boldface | a typeface with thick heavy lines |
| Bold Face | |
| Busy | keep busy with "She busies herself with her butterfly collection" |
View all cognitive synonyms for Officious
| Anagram | Definition |
|---|---|
| Officious | intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner "an interfering old woman" "bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself" "busy about other people''s business" |
View English words with the unique letters used in officious. Words With The Letters Cfiosu
| Similar Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Intrusive | tending to intrude (especially upon privacy); "she felt her presence there was intrusive" |
Officious Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With O
- Ends With S
- Spelled With / Contains Letters
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