Intrusive Definition

ĭn-tro͝osĭv, -zĭv
adjective
Intruding or tending to intrude; constituting intrusion.
Webster's New World
Designating or of igneous rock formed from magma that hardened while still within the earth, moon, etc.
Webster's New World
Present or added in speech although not represented originally in spelling or accounted for otherwise etymologically (Ex.: the d added to OE spinel to form spindle)
Webster's New World
Epenthetic.
American Heritage

Tending or apt to intrude; doing that which is not welcome; interrupting or disturbing; entering without right or welcome.

Did it ever cross your mind that he might find all those questions you ask intrusive?
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noun

(geology) An igneous rock that is forced, while molten, into cracks or between other layers of rock.

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Other Word Forms of Intrusive

Noun

Singular:
intrusive
Plural:
intrusives

Origin of Intrusive

  • Back-formation from intrusion.

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Intrusive Sentence Examples

  • Yancey tossed his newspaper aside and stomped into the hallway, where he gruffly answered the intrusive caller.

  • Without wanting to get too intrusive, can you shed any light?

  • Both he and Daniel Brennan became sounding boards without being intrusive.

  • Some feel it is unfairly intrusive.

  • Practically all the remaining area in these islands is occupied by metamorphic schists and gneisses which occur in great variety and with which are associated numerous dikes and masses of intrusive igneous rock.

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