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INTRUSIVE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tending to intrude (especially upon privacy)
Example:
she felt her presence there was intrusive
Classified under:
Similar:
encroaching; invasive; trespassing (gradually intrusive without right or permission)
busy; busybodied; interfering; meddlesome; meddling; officious (intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner)
Attribute:
intrusiveness; meddlesomeness; officiousness (aggressiveness as evidenced by intruding; by advancing yourself or your ideas without invitation)
Antonym:
unintrusive (not interfering or meddling)
Derivation:
intrude (thrust oneself in as if by force)
intrude (enter uninvited)
intrusiveness (aggressiveness as evidenced by intruding; by advancing yourself or your ideas without invitation)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Thrusting inward
Example:
an intrusive arm of the sea
Classified under:
Similar:
intruding (projecting inward)
Also:
concave (curving inward)
Antonym:
protrusive (thrusting outward)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Of rock material; forced while molten into cracks between layers of other rock
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
irruptive; plutonic (of igneous rock that has solidified beneath the earth's surface; granite or diorite or gabbro)
Domain category:
geology (a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks)
Antonym:
extrusive (of rock material; forced out while molten through cracks in the earth's surface)
