English adjective: intrusive |
1. | intrusive tending to intrude (especially upon privacy) |
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| Samples | She felt her presence there was intrusive.
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| Similar | busy, busybodied, encroaching, interfering, invasive, meddlesome, meddling, officious, trespassing |
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| Attribute | intrusiveness, meddlesomeness, officiousness |
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| Antonyms | not intrusive, unintrusive |
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2. | intrusive of rock material; forced while molten into cracks between layers of other rock |
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| Similar | irruptive, plutonic |
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| Domain category | geology |
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| Antonyms | extrusive |
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3. | intrusive thrusting inward |
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| Samples | An intrusive arm of the sea.
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| Similar | intruding |
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| See also | concave |
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| Antonyms | protrusive |
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