Prying — synonyms, definition

1. prying (a)

busy busybody curious forward inquiring inquisitive interested intrusive meddlesome nosy officious

2. prying (Noun)

curiosity meddling nosiness snoopiness

prying (Noun) — Offensive inquisitiveness.

curiousness inquisitiveness

3. prying (Adjective)

nosey snoopy

prying (Adjective) — Offensively curious or inquisitive. ex. "prying eyes"

4. prying (Verb)

horning in intruding jemmying jimmying levering noseying nosing nosying poking prising prizing

prying (Verb) — To move or force, especially in an effort to get something open. ex. "Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail"

prying (Verb) — Be nosey. ex. "Don't pry into my personal matters!"

prying (Verb) — Search or inquire in a meddlesome way. ex. "This guy is always prying around the office"

prying (Verb) — Make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry. ex. "They pried the information out of him"

asking enquiring extorting inquiring looking opening opening up searching wringing from