officiously

1. 1.

   in an officious manner

   “nothing so fatal as to strive too officiously for an abstract quality like beauty”

Questions about officiously

What does officiously mean?

officiously means "in an officious manner".

How many syllables are in officiously?

officiously has 5 syllables and divides as of-fi-ci-ou-sly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is officiously a common word?

officiously is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.