Hyphenation of officious

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word officious? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

of-fi-cious

Definitions of officious:

1.	Intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner An interfering old woman Bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself Busy about other people's business

Synonyms of officious:

adj	interfering, meddlesome, meddling, busy, busybodied, intrusive

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.