intrusive

/ɪnˈtrusɪv/

/ɪnˈtrusɪv/

Other forms: intrusively

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.

Definitions of intrusive

1. adjective

   tending to intrude (especially upon privacy)
   “she felt her presence there was intrusive”

   synonyms:

   encroaching, invasive, trespassing

   gradually intrusive without right or permission

   busy, busybodied, interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious

   intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner

   antonyms:

   unintrusive

   not interfering or meddling
2. adjective

   of rock material; forced while molten into cracks between layers of other rock
   synonyms:

   irruptive, plutonic

   of igneous rock that has solidified beneath the earth's surface; granite or diorite or gabbro

   antonyms:

   extrusive

   of rock material; forced out while molten through cracks in the earth's surface

   volcanic

   igneous rock produced by eruption and solidified on or near the earth's surface; rhyolite or andesite or basalt
3. adjective

   thrusting inward
   “an intrusive arm of the sea”

   synonyms:

   concave

   curving inward

   intruding

   projecting inward

   antonyms:

   protrusive

   thrusting outward

   bulging, convex

   curving or bulging outward

   beetle, beetling

   jutting or overhanging

   bellied, bellying, bulbous, bulging, bulgy, protuberant

   curving outward

   obtrusive

   sticking out; protruding

   jutting, projected, projecting, protruding, relieved, sticking, sticking out

   extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary

   overshot

   having an upper part projecting beyond the lower

   starting

   (especially of eyes) bulging or protruding as with fear

   underhung, undershot, underslung

   having a lower part projecting beyond the upper

   ventricose, ventricous

   having a swelling on one side