Exact Match:
Synonyms:
- busy,
- busybody,
- curious,
- delving,
- digging,
- fishing,
- forward,
- impertinent,
- in search of,
- inquisitive,
- inquisitorial,
- loaded for bear,
- looking for,
- meddlesome,
- meddling,
- nosy,
- obtrusive,
- officious,
- out for,
- out for bear,
- poking,
- presumptuous,
- probing,
- pushing,
- pushy,
- searching,
- self-appointed,
- snooping,
- snoopy
Related Words:
- self-appointed
collapse - designated or chosen by yourself; "a self-appointed guardian of public morals" related words >
- meddling
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- the act of altering something secretly or improperly related words >
- busy,
- busybody,
- butting-in,
- forward,
- forwardness,
- impertinence,
- impertinent,
- inquisitive,
- inquisitiveness,
- intermeddling,
- intrusiveness,
- meddlesome,
- meddlesomeness,
- nosy,
- obtrusiveness,
- officious,
- officiousness,
- presumption,
- presumptuous,
- presumptuousness,
- prying,
- pushing,
- pushy,
- self-appointed,
- snoopy
- nosy
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- offensively curious or inquisitive; "curious about the neighbor's doings"; "he flipped through my letters in his nosy way"; "prying eyes"; "the snoopy neighbor watched us all day" related words >
- busy,
- busybody,
- curious,
- delving,
- digging,
- eavesdropping,
- fishing,
- forward,
- impertinent,
- in search of,
- inquisitive,
- inquisitorial,
- loaded for bear,
- looking for,
- meddlesome,
- meddling,
- officious,
- out for,
- out for bear,
- poking,
- presumptuous,
- probing,
- prying,
- pushing,
- pushy,
- searching,
- self-appointed,
- snooping,
- snoopy,
- spying
- analysis,
- curiosity,
- curious mind,
- curiousness,
- ghoulishness,
- inquest,
- inquirendo,
- inquiring,
- inquiry,
- inquisition,
- inquisitiveness,
- interest,
- itch for knowledge,
- lively interest,
- meddlesomeness,
- mental acquisitiveness,
- morbid curiosity,
- nosiness,
- officiousness,
- prurience,
- prurient interest,
- prying,
- scopophilia,
- thirst for knowledge,
- voyeurism
- fishing
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- the act of someone who fishes as a diversion
- the occupation of catching fish for a living related words >
- angling,
- casting,
- cynegetic,
- delving,
- digging,
- fishery,
- fly fishing,
- following,
- guddling,
- halieutic,
- harpooning,
- hunting,
- in full cry,
- in hot pursuit,
- in pursuit,
- in search of,
- jigging,
- loaded for bear,
- looking for,
- nosy,
- out for,
- out for bear,
- piscation,
- piscatorial,
- piscatory,
- poking,
- probing,
- prying,
- pursuant,
- pursuing,
- questing,
- rod and reel,
- searching,
- seeking,
- still-fishing,
- trawling,
- trolling,
- whaling
- after,
- agape,
- agog,
- all agog,
- anticipant,
- anticipating,
- anticipative,
- anticipatory,
- awaiting,
- certain,
- confident,
- delving,
- digging,
- eager,
- expectant,
- expecting,
- fishing,
- forearmed,
- forestalling,
- forewarned,
- gaping,
- hopeful,
- in anticipation,
- in expectation,
- in search of,
- loaded for bear,
- looking for,
- looking forward to,
- nosy,
- not surprised,
- optimistic,
- out for,
- out for bear,
- poking,
- prepared,
- probing,
- prying,
- ready,
- sanguine,
- searching,
- sure,
- unsurprised,
- waiting,
- waiting for,
- watching for
- adventuresome,
- adventurous,
- aggressive,
- ambitious,
- assertive,
- brash,
- busy,
- busybody,
- driving,
- dynamic,
- enterprising,
- forceful,
- forward,
- go-ahead,
- hustling,
- impertinent,
- inquisitive,
- meddlesome,
- meddling,
- militant,
- motive,
- nosy,
- officious,
- overweening,
- presuming,
- presumptuous,
- propellant,
- propelling,
- propulsive,
- propulsory,
- prying,
- pulsive,
- pushful,
- pushy,
- self-appointed,
- self-asserting,
- self-assertive,
- shoving,
- snoopy,
- up-and-coming,
- uppish,
- uppity,
- venturesome,
- venturous
- Socratic method,
- asking,
- bringing into question,
- catechetical method,
- catechization,
- catechizing,
- challenge,
- deepening,
- delving,
- depression,
- digging,
- dispute,
- drilling,
- examination,
- excavation,
- fishing,
- in search of,
- inquest,
- inquiring,
- inquisition,
- interpellation,
- interrogation,
- investigation,
- loaded for bear,
- looking for,
- lowering,
- mining,
- nosy,
- out for,
- out for bear,
- poking,
- probe,
- prying,
- pumping,
- querying,
- quest,
- questioning,
- quiz,
- quizzing,
- research,
- searching,
- seeking,
- sinkage,
- sinking,
- tunneling
- inquisitive
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- showing curiosity; "if someone saw a man climbing a light post they might get inquisitive"; "raised a speculative eyebrow"
- inquiring or appearing to inquire; "an inquiring look"; "the police are proverbially inquisitive" related words >
- agape,
- agog,
- all agog,
- analytical,
- burning with curiosity,
- busy,
- busybody,
- consumed with curiosity,
- curious,
- exploring,
- forward,
- ghoulish,
- gossipy,
- impertinent,
- inquiring,
- inquisitorial,
- interested,
- intrusive,
- investigative,
- itchy,
- meddlesome,
- meddling,
- morbid,
- morbidly curious,
- nosy,
- officious,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- overcurious,
- presumptuous,
- probing,
- prurient,
- prying,
- pushing,
- pushy,
- questioning,
- quizzical,
- scopophiliac,
- searching,
- self-appointed,
- snooping,
- snoopy,
- supercurious,
- voyeuristic
- searching
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- exploring thoroughly
- having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect; "searching insights"; "trenchant criticism" related words >
- chase,
- cynegetic,
- delving,
- digging,
- dogging,
- domiciliary visit,
- dragnet,
- exploration,
- fishing,
- follow,
- follow-up,
- following,
- forage,
- frisk,
- halieutic,
- house-search,
- hue and cry,
- hunt,
- hunting,
- in full cry,
- in hot pursuit,
- in pursuit,
- in search of,
- loaded for bear,
- looking for,
- nosy,
- out for,
- out for bear,
- perquisition,
- piscatorial,
- piscatory,
- poking,
- posse,
- probe,
- probing,
- prosecution,
- prying,
- pursuance,
- pursuant,
- pursuing,
- pursuit,
- quest,
- questing,
- ransacking,
- rummage,
- search,
- search party,
- search warrant,
- search-and-destroy operation,
- seeking,
- shadowing,
- stalk,
- stalking,
- still hunt,
- tracking,
- tracking down,
- trailing,
- turning over
- voyeurism
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- a perversion in which a person receives sexual gratification from seeing the genitalia of others or witnessing others' sexual behavior related words >
- active algolagnia,
- algolagnia,
- algolagny,
- amphierotism,
- autoeroticism,
- bisexuality,
- coprophilia,
- curiosity,
- curious mind,
- curiousness,
- exhibitionism,
- fetishism,
- ghoulishness,
- heterosexuality,
- homoeroticism,
- homosexualism,
- homosexuality,
- incest,
- incestuousness,
- inquiring mind,
- inquisitiveness,
- interest,
- itch for knowledge,
- lesbianism,
- lively interest,
- masochism,
- meddlesomeness,
- mental acquisitiveness,
- morbid curiosity,
- narcissism,
- necrophilia,
- nosiness,
- officiousness,
- paraphilia,
- passive algolagnia,
- pedophilia,
- prurience,
- prurient interest,
- prying,
- sadism,
- sadomasochism,
- sapphism,
- scopophilia,
- scotophilia,
- sexual inversion,
- sexual normality,
- sexual preference,
- swinging both ways,
- thirst for knowledge,
- transvestitism,
- tribadism,
- tribady,
- zooerastia,
- zoophilia
- adventuresome,
- adventurous,
- aggressive,
- ambitious,
- arrogant,
- assertive,
- audacious,
- bold,
- brash,
- brassy,
- brazen,
- bumptious,
- busy,
- busybody,
- cheeky,
- cocky,
- cold,
- controlled,
- contumelious,
- cool,
- disdainful,
- driving,
- dynamic,
- enterprising,
- familiar,
- firm-minded,
- forceful,
- forward,
- go-ahead,
- hubristic,
- hustling,
- impertinent,
- importunate,
- independent,
- inquisitive,
- insolent,
- insulting,
- loud,
- meddlesome,
- meddling,
- militant,
- nosy,
- obnoxious,
- obtrusive,
- offensive,
- officious,
- overpresumptuous,
- overweening,
- presuming,
- presumptuous,
- procacious,
- prying,
- pushful,
- pushing,
- self-appointed,
- self-asserting,
- self-assertive,
- self-controlled,
- self-expressive,
- self-possessed,
- self-restrained,
- showy,
- snoopy,
- strong-minded,
- strong-willed,
- up-and-coming,
- uppish,
- uppity,
- venturesome,
- venturous
- acceptable,
- adventurous,
- arrogant,
- assuming,
- audacious,
- bold,
- brash,
- brazen,
- bumptious,
- busy,
- busybody,
- cheeky,
- cold,
- complacent,
- confident,
- contumelious,
- cool,
- daredevil,
- daring,
- death-defying,
- disdainful,
- egotistical,
- familiar,
- fire-eating,
- foolhardy,
- forward,
- gay,
- harebrained,
- hubristic,
- immodest,
- impertinent,
- impudent,
- inexcusable,
- inquisitive,
- insolent,
- insulting,
- licentious,
- lofty,
- madbrain,
- madbrained,
- madcap,
- meddlesome,
- meddling,
- nosy,
- obtrusive,
- officious,
- outrageous,
- overconfident,
- overpresumptuous,
- overweening,
- pompous,
- presuming,
- pretentious,
- prideful,
- procacious,
- proud,
- prying,
- pushful,
- pushing,
- pushy,
- saucy,
- self-appointed,
- self-asserting,
- self-assertive,
- self-assured,
- self-conceited,
- self-elect,
- self-satisfied,
- smug,
- snoopy,
- supercilious,
- temerarious,
- uppish,
- uppity,
- wild,
- wild-ass,
- would-be
- ambling,
- cautious,
- circumspect,
- claudicant,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- creeping like snail,
- deliberate,
- delving,
- digging,
- easy,
- faltering,
- fishing,
- flagging,
- foot-dragging,
- gentle,
- gradual,
- halting,
- hobbled,
- hobbling,
- idle,
- in search of,
- indolent,
- languid,
- languorous,
- lazy,
- leisurely,
- limping,
- loaded for bear,
- looking for,
- lumbering,
- moderate,
- nosy,
- out for,
- out for bear,
- poky,
- probing,
- prying,
- relaxed,
- reluctant,
- sauntering,
- searching,
- shuffling,
- slack,
- slothful,
- slow,
- slow as death,
- slow as molasses,
- slow as slow,
- slow-crawling,
- slow-foot,
- slow-going,
- slow-legged,
- slow-moving,
- slow-paced,
- slow-poky,
- slow-running,
- slow-sailing,
- slow-stepped,
- sluggish,
- snail-paced,
- snaillike,
- staggering,
- strolling,
- tentative,
- toddling,
- tortoiselike,
- tottering,
- trudging,
- turtlelike,
- unhurried,
- waddling
- curiosity
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- a state in which you want to learn more about something related words >
- abnormality,
- amazement,
- anomaly,
- ardor,
- astonishing thing,
- astonishment,
- bauble,
- bric-a-brac,
- cathexis,
- concern,
- concernment,
- concupiscence,
- conversation piece,
- curio,
- desideration,
- desire,
- drive,
- eagerness,
- enthusiasm,
- exception,
- fancy,
- fantasy,
- freak,
- gazingstock,
- gewgaw,
- hope,
- horme,
- improbability,
- inquisitiveness,
- intellectual curiosity,
- interest,
- interestedness,
- interference,
- intrusiveness,
- libido,
- lust for learning,
- marvel,
- marvelment,
- matter of interest,
- meddlesomeness,
- mind,
- miracle,
- monstrosity,
- museum piece,
- need,
- nonesuch,
- nosiness,
- objet d'art,
- oddity,
- passion,
- phenomenon,
- pleasure,
- pleasure principle,
- prodigiosity,
- prodigy,
- prying,
- questioning,
- quite a thing,
- rarity,
- regard,
- sensation,
- sexual desire,
- sight,
- snooping,
- something else,
- special interest,
- spectacle,
- strange thing,
- stunner,
- thirst for knowledge,
- trinket,
- urge,
- want,
- wanting,
- will,
- will and pleasure,
- wish,
- wish fulfillment,
- wonder,
- wonderful thing,
- wonderment
- impertinent
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- characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality; "a certain irreverent gaiety and ease of manner" related words >
- adrift,
- arrogant,
- audacious,
- beside the mark,
- beside the point,
- beside the question,
- biggety,
- bluff,
- bold,
- brash,
- brassy,
- brazen,
- bumptious,
- busy,
- busybody,
- challenging,
- cheeky,
- chutzpadik,
- cocky,
- contemptuous,
- crusty,
- daring,
- defiant,
- defying,
- derisive,
- discourteous,
- disdainful,
- disregardful,
- disrespectful,
- extraneous,
- extrinsic,
- facy,
- flip,
- flippant,
- foreign,
- forward,
- fresh,
- gally,
- gratuitous,
- greatly daring,
- immaterial,
- impolite,
- impudent,
- inadmissible,
- inapplicable,
- inapposite,
- inappropriate,
- incidental,
- inconsequent,
- inquisitive,
- insolent,
- interfering,
- intrusive,
- irrelative,
- irrelevant,
- malapert,
- meddlesome,
- meddling,
- nervy,
- nihil ad rem,
- nonessential,
- nosy,
- not at issue,
- obtrusive,
- off the subject,
- offensive,
- officious,
- out-of-the-way,
- parenthetical,
- pert,
- presumptuous,
- prying,
- pushing,
- pushy,
- regardless of consequences,
- rude,
- sassy,
- saucy,
- self-appointed,
- smart,
- smart-alecky,
- smart-ass,
- snoopy,
- uncalled-for,
- uncivil,
- unessential,
- wise-ass
- intrusive
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- tending to intrude (especially upon privacy); "she felt her presence there was intrusive"
- thrusting inward; "an intrusive arm of the sea"
- of rock material; forced while molten into cracks between layers of other rock related words >
- alien,
- barbarian,
- barbaric,
- barbarous,
- busy,
- entering,
- exotic,
- exterior,
- external,
- extraneous,
- extraterrestrial,
- extrinsic,
- foreign,
- foreign-born,
- forward,
- frantic,
- frenetic,
- frenzied,
- hectic,
- hyperactive,
- hyperkinetic,
- ill-considered,
- ill-seasoned,
- ill-timed,
- importunate,
- improper,
- in,
- inappropriate,
- inauspicious,
- inbound,
- incoming,
- inconvenient,
- inexpedient,
- infelicitous,
- inflooding,
- inflowing,
- ingoing,
- ingressive,
- inopportune,
- inpouring,
- inquisitive,
- intempestive,
- interfering,
- interruptive,
- intervenient,
- intruding,
- invasive,
- inward,
- inward-bound,
- irrelevant,
- irruptive,
- late,
- mal a propos,
- malapropos,
- meddlesome,
- meddling,
- mistimed,
- nosy,
- obtrusive,
- off base,
- officious,
- out of line,
- out of phase,
- out of time,
- outland,
- outlandish,
- outside,
- premature,
- presumptuous,
- prying,
- pushy,
- snoopy,
- strange,
- too late,
- too soon,
- ulterior,
- unbefitting,
- uncalled-for,
- unearthly,
- unfavorable,
- unfit,
- unfitting,
- unfortunate,
- unhandy,
- unhappy,
- unlucky,
- unpropitious,
- unready,
- unripe,
- unseasonable,
- unsought,
- unsuitable,
- untimely,
- untoward,
- unwanted,
- unwelcome,
- wrong
- busy
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- crowded with or characterized by much activity; "a very busy week"; "a busy life"; "a busy street"; "a busy seaport"
- actively or fully engaged or occupied; "busy with her work"; "a busy man"; "too busy to eat lunch"; "the line is busy"
- (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line); "her line is busy"; "receptionists' telephones are always engaged"; "the lavatory is in use"; "kept getting a busy signal"
- overcrowded or cluttered with detail; "a busy painting"; "a fussy design"
- keep busy with; "She busies herself with her butterfly collection" related words >
- absorb,
- active,
- arabesque,
- assiduous,
- at it,
- at work,
- attend to business,
- baroque,
- burden,
- bustling,
- busybody,
- chichi,
- complex,
- complicated,
- detailed,
- devote,
- diligent,
- divert,
- drive,
- elaborate,
- elegant,
- employ,
- employed,
- energetic,
- engage,
- engaged,
- engross,
- fag,
- fancy,
- fine,
- flamboyant,
- florid,
- flowery,
- forward,
- frilly,
- full of business,
- fussy,
- hard at it,
- hard at work,
- hectic,
- high-wrought,
- hustling,
- immerse,
- impertinent,
- in harness,
- industrious,
- inquisitive,
- intricate,
- involve,
- involved,
- keep busy,
- labored,
- lively,
- luxuriant,
- luxurious,
- meddlesome,
- meddling,
- mind the store,
- moresque,
- nosy,
- occupied,
- occupy,
- officious,
- on duty,
- on the go,
- on the hop,
- on the job,
- on the jump,
- on the move,
- on the run,
- oppress,
- ornate,
- ostentatious,
- overdrive,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overlabored,
- overtask,
- overtax,
- overwork,
- overworked,
- overwrought,
- pass the time,
- picturesque,
- presumptuous,
- pretty-pretty,
- prying,
- pushing,
- pushy,
- rich,
- rococo,
- self-appointed,
- snoopy,
- soak,
- spend,
- spend the time,
- sweat,
- task,
- tax,
- tied up,
- work,
- working
- prurience
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- feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness related words >
- an universal wolf,
- andromania,
- animality,
- aphrodisia,
- appetence,
- appetency,
- appetite,
- appetition,
- bawdiness,
- biological urge,
- bodily appetite,
- carnal desire,
- carnality,
- clitoromania,
- concupiscence,
- coveting,
- craving,
- curiosity,
- curious mind,
- curiousness,
- desire,
- dirtiness,
- eromania,
- eroticism,
- eroticomania,
- eroticomaniac,
- erotism,
- erotomania,
- fleshliness,
- fleshly lust,
- furor uterinus,
- ghoulishness,
- goatishness,
- gynecomania,
- horniness,
- hot blood,
- hot pants,
- hunger,
- hysteromania,
- indecency,
- infantile sexuality,
- inquiring mind,
- inquisitiveness,
- interest,
- itch,
- itch for knowledge,
- itching,
- lasciviousness,
- lecherousness,
- lechery,
- lewdness,
- libidinousness,
- lickerishness,
- lively interest,
- lubriciousness,
- lubricity,
- lust,
- lustfulness,
- mania,
- meddlesomeness,
- mental acquisitiveness,
- morbid curiosity,
- nosiness,
- nymphomania,
- obscenity,
- officiousness,
- passion,
- polymorphous perversity,
- pruriency,
- prurient interest,
- prying,
- randiness,
- salaciousness,
- salacity,
- satyriasis,
- satyrism,
- scopophilia,
- sensuality,
- sexiness,
- sexual desire,
- sexual longing,
- sexual passion,
- sexuality,
- thirst,
- thirst for knowledge,
- uteromania,
- venereal appetite,
- voyeurism
- curious
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- eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns); "a curious child is a teacher's delight"; "a trap door that made me curious"; "curious investigators"; "traffic was slowed by curious rubberneckers"; "curious about the neighbor's doings"
- beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior"
- having curiosity aroused; eagerly interested in learning more; "a trap door that made me curious" related words >
- aberrant,
- abnormal,
- absurd,
- agape,
- agog,
- all agog,
- analytical,
- attentive,
- attracted,
- barmy,
- bizarre,
- burning with curiosity,
- careful,
- catechistic,
- cathectic,
- cautious,
- circumspect,
- concerned,
- considerate,
- consumed with curiosity,
- deviant,
- deviate,
- eccentric,
- enthusiastic,
- erratic,
- examining,
- excited,
- exotic,
- extraordinary,
- fascinated,
- freaked out,
- freakish,
- freaky,
- funny,
- ghoulish,
- gossipy,
- grotesque,
- heedful,
- impertinent,
- inquiring,
- inquisitional,
- inquisitive,
- inquisitorial,
- interested,
- interfering,
- intermeddling,
- interrogational,
- interrogative,
- interrogatory,
- intrusive,
- investigative,
- irregular,
- itchy,
- keen on,
- kinky,
- kooky,
- loving,
- meddlesome,
- meddling,
- mindful,
- morbid,
- morbidly curious,
- nosy,
- nuts,
- nutty,
- odd,
- oddball,
- off,
- off the wall,
- offbeat,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- out,
- outlandish,
- outrageous,
- outre,
- overcurious,
- passing strange,
- passionate,
- peculiar,
- piqued,
- pixilated,
- prurient,
- prying,
- quaint,
- queer,
- querying,
- questioning,
- quizzical,
- quizzing,
- regardful,
- scopophiliac,
- scrutinizing,
- searching,
- singular,
- snooping,
- snoopy,
- solicitous,
- strange,
- supercurious,
- tantalized,
- tender,
- thoughtful,
- tickled,
- titillated,
- turned-on,
- unconventional,
- unearthly,
- unusual,
- voyeuristic,
- weird,
- wondrous strange
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