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. Scott Decker:

   Being pulled over is not terribly uncommon. On the other hand, being searched, being pulled out of your car and being arrested are far more intrusive kinds of police actions, the disparities by race for those are where more attention needs to be focused.

2. President Biden himself:

   I don't have to listen to your phone calls to know what you are doing. If I know every single phone call you made, I am able to determine every single person you talk to. I can get a pattern about your life that is very, very intrusive.

3. Jeff Sessions:

   The discovery order in the DACA cases was dramatically intrusive and premature, and I am pleased with tonight’s decision that the district court’s order was ‘overly broad,’.

4. 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.

5. Dave Upthegrove:

   The use of this technology is invasive, intrusive, racially biased and full of risks to fundamental civil liberties. I am proud to sponsor this ban which is supported by local community groups, public defenders, immigrants' rights advocates, racial justice organizations, workers' rights groups, privacy advocates, and technologists.