intrusive
Other forms: intrusively
Something intrusive is getting in your face or invading your space. Nosey questions, a poke in the ribs, and a hovering mother are all intrusive.
Things that are intrusive are a real pain in the neck: they intrude on you. If someone asks you a million questions, especially personal questions, that's intrusive behavior. When photographers hound celebrities, they're being intrusive. If a rock is sticking out and getting in people's way, then it's intrusive. All meanings of intrusive involve something being where it doesn't belong.
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tending to intrude (especially upon privacy)“she felt her presence there was intrusive”
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encroaching, invasive, trespassing
gradually intrusive without right or permission
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busy, busybodied, interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious
intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner
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not intrusive, unintrusive
not interfering or meddling
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encroaching, invasive, trespassing
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of rock material; forced while molten into cracks between layers of other rock
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irruptive, plutonic
of igneous rock that has solidified beneath the earth's surface; granite or diorite or gabbro
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extrusive
of rock material; forced out while molten through cracks in the earth's surface
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volcanic
igneous rock produced by eruption and solidified on or near the earth's surface; rhyolite or andesite or basalt
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irruptive, plutonic
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thrusting inward“an intrusive arm of the sea”
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protrusive
thrusting outward
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bulging, convex
curving or bulging outward
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beetle, beetling
jutting or overhanging
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bellied, bellying, bulbous, bulging, bulgy, protuberant
curving outward
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obtrusive
sticking out; protruding
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jutting, projected, projecting, protruding, relieved, sticking, sticking out
extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary
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overshot
having an upper part projecting beyond the lower
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starting
(especially of eyes) bulging or protruding as with fear
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underhung, undershot, underslung
having a lower part projecting beyond the upper
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ventricose, ventricous
having a swelling on one side
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protrusive
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Vocabulary lists containing intrusive
Jeanne Ann and her mother are living out of a van and struggling to make ends meet — but when Jeanne Ann befriends a wealthy boy, she resists his offers of help.
A young girl experiences triumph and despair as she becomes immersed in the world of competitive chess.
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