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Definition of officious : 1. Disposed to serve; kind; obliging.
2. Importunately interposing services; intermeddling in affairs in which one has no concern; meddlesome.
3. Pertaining to, or being in accordance with, duty.

Synonyms:

in earnest, presuming, diligent, rude, supple, vigorous, ready, energetic, fussy, sober, snoopy, deep, presumptuous, engaged, funereal, substantial, expeditious, solemn, participate, busy, prompt, self-important, bustling, serious, industrious, in use, mobile, humorlessly, restless, brisk, sprightly, busybodied, meddling, impertinent, wide awake, protrusive, quick, pushing, active, nimble, agile, intruding, spry, stolid, alert, lively

invasive, forward, obtrusive, meddlesome, nosy, prying, interfering, intrusive, pushy

Usage examples:

• She was a flower he had plucked for himself alone, and she must not show love or tenderness, or blush at " The bough of cherries some officious fool Broke in the orchard for her, ..." - "Browning and the Dramatic Monologue", S. S. Curry.
• Thank you for being so officious, I said by way of a parting shot. - "My Brilliant Career", Miles Franklin.
• With us, no one scruples to believe that he knows all about a public man, even to the nicest traits of his character; all talk of him, as none should talk but those who are in his intimacy, and, what between hypocrisy on his part- an hypocrisy to which he is in some measure driven by the officious interference with his most private interests- and exaggerations and inventions, that ingenious tyrant, public opinion, comes as near the truth as a fortune- teller who is venturing his prediction in behalf of a stranger. - "Recollections of Europe", J. Fenimore Cooper.