| 单词 | intrusive |
| 释义 | intrusive (once / 4198 pages) 1adj 2adj 3adj Something intrusive is getting in your face or invading your space. Nosey questions, a poke in the ribs, and a hovering mother are all intrusive. Things that are intrusive are a real pain in the neck: they intrude on you. If someone asks you a million questions, especially personal questions, that's intrusive behavior. When photographers hound celebrities, they're being intrusive. If a rock is sticking out and getting in people's way, then it's intrusive. All meanings of intrusive involve something being where it doesn't belong. WORD FAMILYintrusive: intrusively, intrusiveness, unintrusive+/intrude: intruded, intruder, intrudes, intruding, intrusion, intrusive/intruder: intruders/intrusion: intrusions/unintrusive: unintrusively USAGE EXAMPLESIt’s gratingly intrusive when it tries to keep you busy, and transcendentally comforting when it settles for just keeping you company. Washington Post(Dec 12, 2016) But while the hacking focused attention on one particularly stealthy, intrusive way of influencing other states, it is just one lever that the Kremlin pulls. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) In 1986, for instance, when he testified before Congress, he called the Voting Rights Act “intrusive” but “necessary.” Washington Post(Dec 24, 2016) 1 adj tending to intrude (especially upon privacy) 2she felt her presence there was intrusive Syn|Ant encroaching, invasive, trespassing gradually intrusive without right or permission busy, busybodied, interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officiousintrusive in a meddling or offensive manner not intrusive, unintrusive not interfering or meddling adj of rock material; forced while molten into cracks between layers of other rock 3Syn|Ant irruptive, plutonic of igneous rock that has solidified beneath the earth's surface; granite or diorite or gabbro extrusive of rock material; forced out while molten through cracks in the earth's surface volcanicigneous rock produced by eruption and solidified on or near the earth's surface; rhyolite or andesite or basalt adj thrusting inward an intrusive arm of the sea Syn|Ant concave curving inward intrudingprojecting inward protrusive thrusting outward bulging, convexcurving or bulging outward beetle, beetlingjutting or overhanging bellied, bellying, bulbous, bulging, bulgy, protuberantcurving outward obtrusivesticking out; protruding jutting, projected, projecting, protruding, relieved, sticking, sticking outextending out above or beyond a surface or boundary overshothaving an upper part projecting beyond the lower starting(especially of eyes) bulging or protruding as with fear underhung, undershot, underslunghaving a lower part projecting beyond the upper ventricose, ventricoushaving a swelling on one side |
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