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OVEROFFICIOUS

Definition: OVEROFFICIOUS

OVEROFFICIOUS

Adjective

1. Too busy; too ready to intermeddle; too officious.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: OVEROFFICIOUS

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Activity

Meddling; Verb: meddlesome, pushing, officious, overofficious, intrigant.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: OVEROFFICIOUS

English words defined with "OVEROFFICIOUS": Superserviceable. (references)

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Rhyming with "OVEROFFICIOUS"

Words rhyming with "OVEROFFICIOUS" (pronounced 'O"ver*of*fi"cious'): Artificious, Astucious, Atrocious, Audacious, Auspicious, Autoecious, Avaricious, Bibacious, Capacious, Capricious, Cilicious, Contumacious, Convicious, Delicious, fugacious, Fumacious, Furacious, Glacious, gracious, heteroecious, inauspicious, inefficacious, injudicious, judicious, Linguacious, loquacious, luscious, Malgracious, malicious, mendacious, Meracious, meretricious, minacious, Misgracious, monoecious, mordacious, Multiplicious, Multiscious, Obstetricious, Officious, Omniscious, Overluscious, Palacious, Perspicacious, Pertinacious, Pervicacious, Petrosilicious, Phenicious, Phoenicious, Precocious. (additional references)

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Anagrams: OVEROFFICIOUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-f-f-i-i-o-o-o-r-s-u-v"

-3 letters: vociferous.

-4 letters: coiffeurs, coiffures, ferocious, officious, overfocus.

-5 letters: coiffeur, coiffure, officers, orifices, sufficer.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: OVEROFFICIOUS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4F 56 45 52 4F 46 46 49 43 49 4F 55 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001111 01010110 01000101 01010010 01001111 01000110 01000110 01001001 01000011 01001001 01001111 01010101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#86 &#69 &#82 &#79 &#70 &#70 &#73 &#67 &#73 &#79 &#85 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0056 0045 0052 004F 0046 0046 0049 0043 0049 004F 0055 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

49563952494040433743495553

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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