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MEDDLESOME
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Dictionary entry overview: What does meddlesome mean?
• MEDDLESOME (adjective)
The adjective MEDDLESOME has 1 sense:
1. intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner
Familiarity information: MEDDLESOME used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner
Synonyms:
busy; busybodied; interfering; meddlesome; meddling; officious
Context example:
busy about other people's business
Similar:
intrusive (tending to intrude (especially upon privacy))
Derivation:
meddlesomeness (aggressiveness as evidenced by intruding; by advancing yourself or your ideas without invitation)
Context examples
I don’t want to say a word against my own sister, but she was always meddlesome and hard to please, was Sarah.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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