intrusive

English

Etymology

Back-formation from intrusion, +‎ -ive.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɹuːsɪv/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: in‧tru‧sive

Adjective

intrusive (comparative more intrusive, superlative most intrusive)

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

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

2. (geology) Of rocks: forced, while in a plastic or molten state, into the cavities or between the cracks or layers of other rocks.
3. (linguistics) epenthetic
4. (programming) Designating a type of collection in which each item keeps track of what collection it is in, rather than the more conventional approach of a collection keeping track of what items it contains. An intrusive collection does not "own" its contents and a single item can be part of multiple intrusive collections.

   an intrusive linked list

Synonyms

• unwelcome
• uninvited
• disturbing
• interrupting

Antonyms

• unintrusive

Derived terms

• intrusively
• intrusiveness
• intrusive r
• intrusive thought
• nonintrusive

Translations

tending to intrude

Bulgarian: натрапчив (bg) (natrapčiv) Catalan: intrús Dutch: intrusief (nl) Finnish: tunkeileva (fi), tungetteleva (fi) French: intrusif (fr) German: aufdringlich (de) Hebrew: התערב Macedonian: на́траплив (nátrapliv), на́паден (nápaden), на́метлив (námetliv) Polish: natrętny (pl) Portuguese: intrusivo (pt) m Russian: навя́зчивый (ru) (navjázčivyj), назо́йливый (ru) (nazójlivyj) (pesky), вторга́ющийся (ru) (vtorgájuščijsja) Serbo-Croatian: intruzivan (sh), nametljiv (sh), ometajući Spanish: intruso (es), intrusivo, zampón (Latin America)

forced between layers of rocks

Catalan: intrusiu Finnish: intrusiivinen (fi) German: intrusiv (de) Maori: rāroto Russian: интрузи́вный (ru) (intruzívnyj) Serbo-Croatian: intrudiran

Noun

intrusive (plural intrusives)

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

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “intrusive”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “intrusive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

French

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Adjective

intrusive

1. feminine singular of intrusif

German

Adjective

intrusive

1. inflection of intrusiv:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Adjective

intrusive

1. feminine plural of intrusivo

Anagrams

• risvenuti