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ALL meanings of intrusive

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  • noun intrusive Making an unwelcome manifestation with disruptive or adverse effect. 1
  • adjective intrusive tending or apt to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome: intrusive memories of a lost love. 1
  • adjective intrusive characterized by or involving intrusion. 1
  • adjective intrusive intruding; thrusting in. 1
  • adjective intrusive Geology. (of a rock) having been forced between preexisting rocks or rock layers while in a molten or plastic condition. noting or pertaining to plutonic rocks. 1
  • adjective intrusive Phonetics. excrescent (def 2). 1
  • adjective intrusive invading privacy 1
  • adjective intrusive medical treatment: invasive 1
  • adjective intrusive Something that is intrusive disturbs your mood or your life in a way you do not like. 0
  • adjective intrusive characterized by intrusion or tending to intrude 0
  • adjective intrusive (of igneous rocks) formed by intrusion 0
  • adjective intrusive 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 0
  • adjective intrusive intruding or tending to intrude 0
  • adjective intrusive designating or of igneous rock formed from magma that hardened while still within the earth, moon, etc. 0
  • adjective intrusive 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) 0
  • noun intrusive (geology) An igneous rock that is forced, while molten, into cracks or between other layers of rock. 0
  • adjective intrusive Tending or apt to intrude; doing that which is not welcome; interrupting or disturbing; entering without right or welcome. 0
  • adjective intrusive (geology) Of rocks: forced, while in a plastic or molten state, into the cavities or between the cracks or layers of other rocks. 0
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