intrusive
English
Etymology
Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#INTRUSIVECategory:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *trewd-#INTRUSIVEBack-formation from intrusionCategory:English back-formations#INTRUSIVE, + -iveCategory:English terms suffixed with -ive#INTRUSIVE.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪnˈtɹuːsɪv/Category:English 3-syllable words#INTRUSIVECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#INTRUSIVE
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#INTRUSIVEAudio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: in‧tru‧sive
Adjective
intrusive (comparative more intrusive, superlative most intrusive)Category:English lemmas#INTRUSIVECategory:English adjectives#INTRUSIVECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#INTRUSIVECategory:Pages with entries#INTRUSIVECategory:Pages with 4 entries#INTRUSIVE
- 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?Category:English terms with usage examples#INTRUSIVE
- (geologyCategory:en:Geology#INTRUSIVE) Of rocks: forced, while in a plastic or molten state, into the cavities or between the cracks or layers of other rocks.
- (linguisticsCategory:en:Linguistics#INTRUSIVE) epenthetic
- (programmingCategory:en:Programming#INTRUSIVE) 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.
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Noun
intrusive (plural intrusives)Category:English lemmas#INTRUSIVECategory:English nouns#INTRUSIVECategory:English countable nouns#INTRUSIVECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#INTRUSIVECategory:Pages with entries#INTRUSIVECategory:Pages with 4 entries#INTRUSIVE
- (geologyCategory:en:Geology#INTRUSIVE) 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
Adjective
intrusiveCategory:French non-lemma forms#INTRUSIVECategory:French adjective forms#INTRUSIVECategory:French entries with incorrect language header#INTRUSIVECategory:Pages with entries#INTRUSIVECategory:Pages with 4 entries#INTRUSIVE
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
intrusiveCategory:German non-lemma forms#INTRUSIVECategory:German adjective forms#INTRUSIVECategory:German entries with incorrect language header#INTRUSIVECategory:Pages with entries#INTRUSIVECategory:Pages with 4 entries#INTRUSIVE
- inflection of intrusiv:
Italian
Adjective
intrusiveCategory:Italian non-lemma forms#INTRUSIVECategory:Italian adjective forms#INTRUSIVECategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#INTRUSIVECategory:Pages with entries#INTRUSIVECategory:Pages with 4 entries#INTRUSIVE