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. Maya Wang:

   If you look at China's surveillance measures during the coronavirus outbreak, from the development of health codes to installation of surveillance cameras to enforce quarantine, we're seeing an increasingly intrusive use of surveillance technologies that were previously only seen in particularly repressed regions, like Xinjiang, the surveillance measures being implemented during Covid-19, are unfortunately — if not pushed back — going to live with us for a very long time.

2. Merrick Garland:

   Justice Department does not take such a decision lightly. Where possible, it is standard practice to seek less intrusive means as an alternative to a search and to narrowly scope any search that is undertaken.

3. David Anderson:

   Each intrusive power must be shown to be necessary, clearly spelled out in law, limited in accordance with international human rights standards and subject to demanding and visible safeguards.

4. Curt Levey:

   But it’s a slippery slope to more intrusive tactics. Pretty soon, the government will be interested in where you were as much before and after the crime as they can get. And that’s where it gets dangerous. They will want to know your state of mind or whether you met with some co-conspirators, they will want as broad a record of your location as they can find.

5. Joseph Cirincione:

   We are likely to get from this deal one of the most intrusive inspection regimes ever put in for any agreement of this type, all of this would be supervised by international inspectors.