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Meddling vs Impertinent - What's the difference?

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Meddling is a related term of impertinent.


As adjectives the difference between meddling and impertinent

is that meddling is that meddles while impertinent is insolent, ill-mannered.

As nouns the difference between meddling and impertinent

is that meddling is action of the verb meddle while impertinent is an impertinent individual.

As a verb meddling

is .

meddling

English

Adjective

(head)
  • That meddles.

    • Synonyms

    * annoying

    Derived terms

    * meddlingly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Action of the verb meddle .
  • * 1835 , William Osburn, Doctrinal Errors of the Apostolical and Early Fathers (page 30)
    • It had been well, if these dishonest meddlings with existing books had stopped here.

    Verb

    (head)

    • 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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