polypragmatic

adjective

poly·​pragmatic

variants or less commonly polypragmatical

¦pälē,

-lə̇+

: concerned with things not one's own affair : meddlesome

Word History

Etymology

Late Greek polypragmatos (from Greek polypragmatein to be busy with many things, to be meddlesome, from poly- + pragmat-, pragma deed, affair) + English -ic or -ical

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