INTRUSIVE
Dictionary entry overview: What does intrusive mean?
• INTRUSIVE (adjective)
The adjective INTRUSIVE has 3 senses:
1. tending to intrude (especially upon privacy)
2. of rock material; forced while molten into cracks between layers of other rock
3. thrusting inward
Familiarity information: INTRUSIVE used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• INTRUSIVE (adjective)
Meaning:
Tending to intrude (especially upon privacy)
Context example:
she felt her presence there was intrusive
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)
Meaning:
Of rock material; forced while molten into cracks between layers of other rock
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)
Meaning:
Thrusting inward
Context example:
an intrusive arm of the sea
Similar:
intruding (projecting inward)
Also:
concave (curving inward)
Antonym:
protrusive (thrusting outward)
