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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As Kennedy said at Amherst, “The artist, however faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an officious state.”
From Salon
China's approach to urging people to have children also risks backfiring if people feel the government is being "too intrusive" about what is deeply personal choice, she said.
From BBC
Chaperoning calls between bankers and analysts was purposely intrusive.
It then proposes, in detail, three “alternative, less intrusive and likelier, quicker, options for resolution.”
But her raucous Georgie made me wonder why this solitary older gentleman was tolerating her intrusive madness.
From Los Angeles Times
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