Synonyms for meddlesome
- adjective
All synonyms
Adjective
meddling, officious, intrusive, nosy, busy, impertinent, inquisitive, obtrusive, intermeddlesome dated
Definitions
- adj. 1
Characterized or marked by meddling; inclined or having a tendency to meddle or interfere in other people's business.
If those meddlesome kids hadn't turned me in, I'd have gotten away with my nefarious scheme!
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An inquisitive person is one who is bent on finding out all that can be found out by inquiry, especially of little and personal matters, and hence is generally meddlesome and prying.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- intrusive Miroslav apologized for being intrusive at the beginning.
- meddling Tom is always meddling in other people's business.
- nosy Tom doesn't seem to be as nosy as Mary seems to be.
By length
- 4 letters
- busy2, nosy2
- 8 letters
- meddling3
- 9 letters
- intrusive3, obtrusive3, officious
- 11 letters
- inquisitive4, impertinent4
- 15 letters
- intermeddlesome
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (busy2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- importun
- Italiano
- importuno
- Español
- inoportuno