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Adjective: intrusive  in'troo-siv
  1. Tending to intrude (especially upon privacy)
    "she felt her presence there was intrusive"
     
  2. (geology) of rock material; forced while molten into cracks between layers of other rock
    "The geologist identified an intrusive granite formation in the cliff face"
     
  3. Thrusting inward
    "an intrusive arm of the sea"

See also: busy, busybodied, concave, encroaching, interfering, intruding, intrusiveness, invasive, irruptive, meddlesome, meddlesomeness, meddling, officious, officiousness, plutonic

Antonym: extrusive, not intrusive, protrusive

Encyclopedia: Intrusive