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Impertinent vs Meddlesome - What's the difference?

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Impertinent is a synonym of meddlesome.


As adjectives the difference between impertinent and meddlesome

is that impertinent is insolent, ill-mannered while meddlesome is inclined or having a tendency to meddle or interfere in other people's business.

As a noun impertinent

is an impertinent individual.

impertinent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • insolent, ill-mannered
  • * Tillotson
    • things that are impertinent to us
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • How impertinent that grief was which served no end!
  • irrelevant (opposite of pertinent)

    • Usage notes

    Although, historically, definition 2 was the original (derived from the French below) usage; meaning gradually changed to definition 1. More recently general usage has come to, once again, incorporate definition 2. As many older speakers will consider definition 2 incorrect, avoiding the word altogether may be advisable. The construction "not pertinent" is one possible alternative.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An impertinent individual.
  • * (Maria Edgeworth)
    • comfortably recessed from curious impertinents
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    meddlesome

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Inclined or having a tendency to meddle or interfere in other people's business.
    • If those meddlesome kids hadn't turned me in, I'd have gotten away with my nefarious scheme!

    Synonyms

    * (inclined to meddle or interfere ): interfering, kibitzing, nosy

    Derived terms

    * meddlesomely * meddlesomeness