meddling

Main Entry:
meddling
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: interfering
Synonyms: interference, interrupting, meddlesomeness, nosiness, prying, snooping
Main Entry: busy
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: nosy, impertinent
Synonyms: butting in, curious, forward, inquisitive, interfering, intrusive, meddlesome, meddling, nebby, obtrusive, officious, prying, pushy, snoopy, stirring, troublesome
Main Entry: curiosity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: intense desire to know, understand
Synonyms: concern, eagerness, inquiring mind, inquiringness, inquisitiveness, interest, interestingness, intrusiveness, investigation, meddlesomeness, meddling, mental acquisitiveness, nosiness, officiousness, prying, questioning, regard, searching, snoopiness, snooping, thirst for knowledge
Antonyms: disinterest, indifference
Main Entry: curious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: desiring knowledge, understanding
Synonyms: analytical, disquisitive, examining, impertinent, inquiring, inquisitive, inspecting, interested, interfering, intrusive, investigative, meddlesome, meddling, nosy, peeping, peering, prurient, prying, puzzled, questioning, scrutinizing, searching, snoopy, tampering
Antonyms: disinterested, incurious, indifferent, uninterested
Main Entry: gossip
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: talk about others; rumor
Synonyms: account, babble, back-fence talk, blather, blether, buzz*, calumny, chatter, chitchat, chronicle, clothesline, conversation, cry, defamation, dirty laundry, dirty linen, dirty wash, earful, grapevine, hearsay, idle talk, injury, malicious talk, meddling, news, prate, prattle, report, scandal, scuttlebutt, slander, small talk, story, tale, talk, whispering campaign, wire
Antonyms: fact
Main Entry: hunt
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: search, chase
Synonyms: coursing, exploration, field sport, following, frisking, game, hounding, hunting, inquest, inquiry, inquisition, interrogation, investigation, look-see, meddling, probe, prosecution, prying, pursuance, pursuing, pursuit, quest, race, raid, reconnaissance, research, rummage, scrutiny, seeking, sifting, snooping, sporting, steeplechase, study, tracing, trailing
Main Entry: impertinent
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bold, disrespectful
Synonyms: arrogant, brash, brassy, brazen, contumelious, discourteous, disgracious, flip*, forward, fresh, ill-mannered, impolite, impudent, inappropriate, incongruous, inquisitive, insolent, interfering, intrusive, lippy, meddlesome, meddling, nosy*, off base, offensive, out of line, pert, presumptuous, procacious, prying, rude, sassy*, smart, smart alecky, uncalled-for, uncivil, ungracious, unmannerly, unsuitable
Antonyms: kind, mannered, nice, polite, refined, respectful
Main Entry: inquisitive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: curious
Synonyms: analytical, big-eyed, challenging, forward, impertinent, inquiring, inquisitorial, interested, intrusive, investigative, meddlesome, meddling, nosy, peering, personal, poking, presumptuous, probing, prying, questioning, scrutinizing, searching, sifting, snooping, speculative
Antonyms: incurious, indifferent, unconcerned, uninterested
Main Entry: intrusive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: obtrusive
Synonyms: forward, interfering, invasive, meddlesome, meddling, nosy*, presumptuous, protruding, prying
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