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. Mary Lou Marzian:

   My point is to illustrate how intrusive and ridiculous it is for elected officials to be inserting themselves into private and personal medical decisions, a health-care practitioner shall... prescribe a drug for erectile dysfunction only to a man who is currently married.

2. Steven Alcairo:

   It’s a very intrusive law that will accomplish absolutely nothing, as of right now I would refuse that, unless they brought subpoena.

3. Attorney General William Barr:

   The Inspector General's report now makes clear that The FBI launched an intrusive investigation of a U.S. presidential campaign on the thinnest of suspicions that, in my view, were insufficient to justify the steps taken.

4. State John Kerry:

   You can't bomb knowledge into oblivion unless you kill everybody. You can't bomb it away, the question is, can you provide an adequate level ... of intrusive inspections, structured tough requirements, limitations, all the insights necessary to be able to know to a certainty that a program is peaceful.

5. George Papadopoulos:

   Unless there was some sort of incredibly scrupulous investigation into my background, my life, my personal life, my work history, they would have had to have used some sort of intrusive measure, at that time, the FISA warrants was the one method that everybody was talking about.