| 单词 | officious |
| 释义 | officious (once / 3001 pages) adj Though officious sounds like official, it means being annoyingly eager to do more than is required. "The officious lunch lady made everyone's food choices her business, and made nasty comments when students chose cookies over carrots." Officious is a tricky word as it seems like it might mean something like office or official. Instead, it is a word to describe someone that acts more official than they actually are. People who are officious are busybodies. They want to make their opinions known and followed, despite not having any kind of real power. WORD FAMILYofficious: officiously, officiousness+/officiousness: officiousnesses USAGE EXAMPLESYet his responses seemed officious and incongruous with Rice’s alarming testimony. Washington Post(Dec 02, 2016) It had struck her as comically officious then, hearing his full name uttered. Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns(2007) The constant advertisements and hail of yellow flags from overly officious officials make a PBS series seem fast-moving, with a clearer story line. Washington Post(Oct 31, 2016) adj intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself Syn busy, busybodied, interfering, meddlesome, meddling intrusive tending to intrude (especially upon privacy) |
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