intrusive
Americanadjective
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tending or apt to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome.
intrusive memories of a lost love.
- Synonyms:
- disturbing , irritating , troublesome , worrisome , irksome , bothersome , annoying
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characterized by or involving intrusion.
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intruding; thrusting in.
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Geology.
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(of a rock) having been forced between preexisting rocks or rock layers while in a molten or plastic condition.
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noting or pertaining to plutonic rocks.
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Phonetics. excrescent.
adjective
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characterized by intrusion or tending to intrude
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(of igneous rocks) formed by intrusion Compare extrusive
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phonetics relating to or denoting a speech sound that is introduced into a word or piece of connected speech for a phonetic rather than a historical or grammatical reason, such as the (r) often pronounced between idea and of in the idea of it
Other Word Forms
- intrusively adverb
- intrusiveness noun
- nonintrusive adjective
- nonintrusively adverb
- unintrusive adjective
- unintrusively adverb
Etymology
Origin of intrusive
late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425; intrusion, -ive
Example Sentences
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From Salon
But though England in the late 16th century is an utterly alien time and place, and it feels that way in some early scenes, Ms. Zhao grafts onto her setting an intrusive 21st-century sensibility.
“In some ways it can be a good boundary with family, because you have your own built-in source of support if your family is overly intrusive,” Coleman said.
From MarketWatch
Still, I couldn’t quite shake the feeling that I was somehow being too intrusive.
From Los Angeles Times
It is, in part, why this series has been so confronting, dizzying and strangely intrusive.
From BBC
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