intrusive

English

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Adjective

intrusive (comparative more intrusive, superlative most intrusive)

1. 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?

2. (geology) Of rocks: forced, while in a plastic or molten state, into the cavities or between the cracks or layers of other rocks.

Translations

tending to intrude

Dutch: intrusief (nl) Finnish: tunkeileva, tungetteleva French: intrusif (fr) German: aufdringlich (de) Hebrew: התערב (he)

Portuguese: intrusivo (pt) m. Russian: вторгающийся (ru) Serbo-Croatian: intruzivan (sh), nametljiv (sh), ometajući (sh) Spanish: intruso (es)

forced between layers of rocks

Finnish: intrusiivinen German: intrusiv (de)

Serbo-Croatian: intrudiran (sh)

Related terms

• intrusion
• intrusively
• intrusiveness

Noun

intrusive (plural intrusives)

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

References

• intrusive in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• intrusive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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Italian

Adjective

intrusive f.

1. Feminine plural form of intrusivo

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