| ADJECTIVE | all | intrusive | tending to intrude (especially upon privacy) |
|---|---|---|---|
| all | intrusive | of rock material | |
| all | intrusive | thrusting inward |
| Sounds | ihntruw'sihv | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | abortive ... vituperative: 304 rhymes with ihv... | |
| Meaning | tending to intrude (especially upon privacy). | |
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| Example | "she felt her presence there was intrusive" | |
| Attribute of | intrusiveness, meddlesomeness, officiousness | Aggressiveness as evidenced by intruding |
| Narrower | encroaching, invasive, trespassing | gradually intrusive without right or permission |
| interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious, busy, busybodied | intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | |
| Opposite | unintrusive, not intrusive | not interfering or meddling |
| Spanish | intruso | |
| Nouns | intrusiveness | aggressiveness as evidenced by intruding |
| Verbs | intrude | thrust oneself in as if by force |
| intrude | enter uninvited | |
| Meaning | Of rock material; forced while molten into cracks between layers of other rock. | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | geology | A science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks / rocks |
| Narrower | irruptive, plutonic | Of igneous rock that has solidified beneath the earth's surface |
| Opposite | extrusive | Of rock material |
| Spanish | intrusivo | |
| Meaning | thrusting inward. | |
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| Example | "an intrusive arm of the sea" | |
| Narrower | intruding | Projecting inward |
| See also | concave | curving inward |
| Opposite | protrusive | thrusting outward |
| Spanish | intruso, que se entromete | |
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