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Reassuring vs Meddlesome - What's the difference?

reassuring | meddlesome |

As adjectives the difference between reassuring and meddlesome

is that reassuring is that reassures; causing comfort or confidence while meddlesome is inclined or having a tendency to meddle or interfere in other people's business.

As a verb reassuring

is .

As a noun reassuring

is reassurance.

reassuring

English

Verb

(head)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That reassures; causing comfort or confidence.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=17 citation , passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring . It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].}}
  • * 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 95:
  • It was reassuring to be back in the regent's warm embrace.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • reassurance
  • * (Mark Twain)
  • Alfred trembled, and felt a great sinking inside, but he did what he could to conceal his misery, and to respond with some show of heart to the Major's kindly pettings and reassurings .

    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