Syn. -- Rude; officious; intrusive; saucy; unmannerly; meddlesome;
disrespectful; impudent; insolent. -- Impertinent, Officious, Rude. A
person is officious who obtrudes his offices or assistance where they
are not needed; he is impertinent when he intermeddles in things with
which he has no concern. The former shows a want of tact, the latter a
want of breeding, or, more commonly, a spirit of sheer impudence. A
person is rude when he violates the proprieties of social life either
from ignorance or wantonness. "An impertinent man will ask questions
for the mere gratification of curiosity; a rude man will burst into the
room of another, or push against his person, inviolant of all decorum;
one who is officious is quite as unfortunate as he is troublesome; when
he strives to serve, he has the misfortune to annoy." Crabb. See
Impudence, and Insolent.