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单词 intrusive
释义

intrusive

/ɪnˈtruːsɪv /
adjective
1Causing disruption or annoyance through being unwelcome or uninvited: that was an intrusive question tourist attractions that are environmentally intrusive...
  • But the most intrusive questions come on departure.
  • Her tone's informal, friendly and modest, even when she's fending off unwanted or intrusive questions - of which there prove to be several.
  • With each intrusive question, I became more stoic and stiff.

Synonyms

intruding, invasive, obtrusive, interrupting, trespassing, unwanted, unwelcome;
meddlesome, meddling, interfering, busybody;
inquisitive, prying, curious
informal pushy, nosy
invasive, impossible to ignore, high-profile, prominent, unavoidable, inescapable, interrupting, disturbing;
annoying, irritating, irksome
informal in one's face
personal, prying, forward, impudent, impertinent, offensive
informal nosy, nosy-parker, snooping, snoopy
2 Phonetics (Of a sound) pronounced between words or syllables to facilitate pronunciation, such as an r in saw a film.
3 Geology Relating to or formed by intrusion.Variably serpentinized Devonian mafic and ultramafic intrusive rocks occur in the western and northern parts of the map area....
  • The early Permian rifting in the North Atlantic involved siliciclastic sedimentation in extensional basins and widespread extrusive and intrusive magmatic activity.
  • In addition, a number of intrusive centres, lava flows and dykes crop out in the NW corner of the island (close to Cap St. Andre).

Derivatives

intrusively

adverb ...
  • The result is ham-handed unrolling of the backstory and awkward dialogue that intrusively narrates when it might better have shut the hell up.
  • I've wondered why pop-up ads and new larger sized, intrusively placed ads are so annoying.
  • Many local houses will be overshadowed by buildings which are intrusively near and over-sized for the neighbourhood.

intrusiveness

/ɪnˈtruːsɪvnəs / noun ...
  • Allegedly to reduce the incidence and intrusiveness of such searches, the government is pressing forward with plans to do background checks on travelers, again without regard to suspicion.
  • The intrusiveness of electronic surveillance, its great potential for abuse, and its infringement on traditional expectations of privacy all distinguished it from old-fashioned eavesdropping.
  • But that hardly eliminates the need for reform, in reducing the severity of sentences and the intrusiveness of drug law enforcement, and shifting to more selective, targeted enforcement.

Rhymes

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