əˈfishəs adjective
Etymology: Latin officiosus, from officium service, kindness, duty, office + -osus -ous — more at office
1.
a. obsolete : eager to serve or help : kind , obliging
officious humility of a heart devoted to the assistance merely of the inquisitive — Laurence Sterne
b. obsolete : dutiful
c. obsolete : official , formal
2. : volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome
a college … should excise officious administration … in order to let learning happen — F.N.Davis
shouting orders and generally making an officious nuisance of himself
3. : having a connection with official matters or duties merely through the position of the speaker or doer or the nature of the matters or duties : of an informal or unauthorized nature : unofficial
officious conversation between foreign ministers
— opposed to official
Synonyms: see impertinent