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intrusive

[ in-troo-siv ]

adjective

  1. tending or apt to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome:

    intrusive memories of a lost love.

    Synonyms: disturbing, irritating, troublesome, worrisome, irksome, bothersome, annoying

  2. characterized by or involving intrusion.
  3. intruding; thrusting in.
  4. Geology.
    1. (of a rock) having been forced between preexisting rocks or rock layers while in a molten or plastic condition.
    2. noting or pertaining to plutonic rocks.


intrusive

/ ɪnˈtruːsɪv /

adjective

  1. characterized by intrusion or tending to intrude
  2. (of igneous rocks) formed by intrusion Compare extrusive
  3. 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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • inˈtrusiveness, noun
  • inˈtrusively, adverb
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Other Words From

  • in·trusive·ly adverb
  • in·trusive·ness noun
  • nonin·trusive adjective
  • nonin·trusive·ly adverb
  • unin·trusive adjective
  • unin·trusive·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of intrusive1

late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425; intrusion, -ive
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Example Sentences

In most democratic countries this doesn’t tend to come with consequences much more intrusive than targeted ads.

The nose swab, if not painful, is certainly intrusive, as a Fortune reporter found out.

From Fortune

Overseen by law firm Venable, the cross-industry group identified over a dozen intrusive ad formats that the industry should seek to avoid.

From Digiday

Bahrain, Kuwait, and Norway all launched intrusive covid-19 tracing apps that “actively carry out live or near-live tracking of users’ locations by frequently uploading GPS coordinates to a central server,” Amnesty International reported in June.

Meanwhile, media giants like Google invent their own ways of managing intrusive ads.

In a message that would resonate profoundly if given today, he warned against the intrusive power of a faceless state.

This disdain stems from anger at intrusive Congressional action and feckless Congressional inaction.

“They used Sochi as a test case for a more intrusive system,” Galeotti said.

Russian communications monitoring became even more intrusive earlier this year during the Sochi winter games.

Which means that government—good old intrusive Nanny State government— must step in even more.

And at every turn intrusive social legislation must seek to prevent such injustice.

A course gneiss is the predominant rock, but is associated with garnetiferous mica-schists and much intrusive granite.

Do not think me intrusive or importunate if I now call, dear sir, on you, to remember it!'

Mr. Dempsey stood for a few seconds, and perhaps some secret suspicion crept over him that this visit might be thought intrusive.

In Chittagong, then, we must look about us for the aborigines; so intrusive have become the Hindú elements.

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