Synonyms for intrusive
ɪnˈtru sɪvin·tru·sive

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1. intrusive

   An inquisitive person is one who is bent on finding out all that can be found out by inquiry, especially of little and personal matters, and hence is generally meddlesome and prying. Inquisitive may be used in a good sense, tho in such connection inquiring is to be preferred; as, an inquiring mind. As applied to a state of mind, curious denotes a keen and rather pleasurable desire to know fully something to which one's attention has been called, but without the active tendency that inquisitive implies; a well-bred person may be curious to know, but will not be inquisitive in trying to ascertain, what is of interest in the affairs of another.

   Synonyms:
   curious, inquiring, inquisitive, meddlesome, meddling, peeping, prying, scrutinizing, searching

   Antonyms:
   apathetic, careless, heedless, inattentive, indifferent, unconcerned, uninterested

   Preposition:
   Inquisitive about, concerning, in regard to, regarding trifles.

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1. intrusiveadjective

   tending to intrude (especially upon privacy)

   "she felt her presence there was intrusive"

   Antonyms:
   relieved, ventricose, beetle, bellied, obtrusive, bulgy, protruding, sticking out(p), projecting, bulbous, underhung, bulging, underslung, protrusive, jutting, volcanic, sticking(p), undershot, ventricous, overshot, projected, beetling, protuberant, bellying, starting, not intrusive, unintrusive, extrusive

2. intrusiveadjective

   of rock material; forced while molten into cracks between layers of other rock

   Antonyms:
   projecting, protrusive, obtrusive, undershot, not intrusive, volcanic, bulgy, bulging, ventricous, sticking(p), bulbous, underhung, relieved, underslung, bellied, bellying, sticking out(p), beetling, protuberant, beetle, unintrusive, overshot, extrusive, projected, starting, protruding, jutting, ventricose

3. intrusiveadjective

   thrusting inward

   "an intrusive arm of the sea"

   Antonyms:
   bulgy, relieved, ventricose, protruding, projected, obtrusive, undershot, underslung, ventricous, underhung, not intrusive, volcanic, bulbous, beetling, unintrusive, jutting, sticking out(p), protrusive, protuberant, bellying, sticking(p), starting, extrusive, projecting, bellied, overshot, beetle, bulging

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1. • Geology

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1. intrusiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   obtrusive, trespassing

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1. intrusiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   obtrusive

   Antonyms:
   unintrusive, unobtrusive, retiring

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1. List of paraphrases for "intrusive":

   invasive, privacy-invasive, interventionist, obtrusive, unwelcome

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1. State John Kerry:

   Covert, of course, is the hardest, you need to have verification and intrusive inspection to be able to find covert facilities.

2. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie:

   Because this President has run up more debt than any president in American history, that debt has been given to us in large measure by the Chinese, and so now, as the Chinese markets tend to have a correction, which they're doing right now, it's going to have an even greater effect because this president doesn't know how to say no to spending, doesn't know how to say no to a bigger and more intrusive government.

3. William Barr:

   The inspector general's report now makes clear that the FBI launched an intrusive investigation of a William Barr presidential campaign on the thinnest of suspicions, that, in my view, were insufficient to justify the steps taken, it is also clear that, from its inception the evidence produced by the investigation was consistently exculpatory.

4. William Barr:

   The inspector general's report now makes clear that The FBI launched an intrusive investigation of a US presidential campaign on the thinnest of suspicions, that, in my view, were insufficient to justify the steps taken, it is also clear that, from its inception the evidence produced by the investigation was consistently exculpatory.

5. Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez:

   In the OAS, we announced that if these intrusive, arbitrary, illicit, misdirected and rude actions were to persist against the sovereignty of our country, we would immediately proceed to denounce the letter of OAS and to initiate the definite withdrawal of Venezuela form this regional organization.