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pryingadjective interested in what is not one's own businessas we moved into our new home, we could sense that there were prying eyes watching us curious, inquisitive, nosy(or nosey), snoopy interfering, intrusive, meddlesome, meddling, obtrusive, officiousinquisitional, inquisitorial, interrogative, questioning, quizzicalconcerned, interested incurious, uncurious apathetic, disinterested, indifferent, unconcerned, uninterested thrusting oneself where one is not welcome or invitedprying neighbors who refuse to mind their own business busy, interfering, intruding, intrusive, meddlesome, meddling, nosy(or nosey), obtrusive, officious, presuming, presumptuous, protrusive, pushing, pushy, snoopy bold, brazen, bumptious, impertinent, impudent, insolent, rudeinvading, trespassingcurious, inquisitiveannoying, harassing, pestiferousoverbearing, superserviceable unobtrusive hands-offuninvolvedquiet, reclusive, reserved, reticent, retiring, silent, taciturn, withdrawninhibited, restrained, subdued to raise, move, or pull apart with or as if with a leverit took some effort to pry up the trap door jimmying, levering, prizing elevating, hoisting, lifting, upliftingbreaking, breaking up, detaching, disengaging, disjoining, dividing, parting, pulling, separatingshifting connecting, joining to draw out by force or with efforta vain attempt to pry the cork out of a wine bottle corkscrewing, extracting, prizing, pulling, rooting (out), tearing (out), uprooting, wresting, wringing, yanking mining, plucking, removing, taking (out), withdrawing implanting, inserting, installing, instillingcramming, jamming, ramming, stuffing, wedging to interest oneself in what is not one's concerndon't go prying into other people's business butting in, interfering, interloping, intermeddling, intruding, meddling, messing, mucking (about or around), nosing, obtruding, poking, snooping interceding, interposing, interveningbarging (in), chiseling (in)(or chiselling (in)), encroaching, infringing, invading, trespassingfiddling, fooling, monkeying, playing, tampering avoiding, eschewing, shunningdisregarding, ignoring, neglecting, overlooking adj.curious, inquisitive, prying mean interested in what is not one's personal or proper concern.curious, a neutral term, basically connotes an active desire to learn or to know.children are curious about everything inquisitive suggests impertinent and habitual curiosity and persistent quizzing.dreaded the visits of their inquisitive relatives prying implies busy meddling and officiousness.prying neighbors who refuse to mind their own business in 1552 |