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. Roger McNamee:

   By draping his essay in the guise of cooperation, Zuckerberg hopes to distract policy makers from the real threat, their code and algorithms influence our daily lives in ways far more intrusive than democratic governments or the law. No one elected these companies and they refuse to be held accountable.

2. Catherine Mayer:

   It's an amazingly intrusive kind of coverage that only women undergo and it means that at some point it will also turn because inevitably she will get older.

3. Carlos Zapata:

   The most important right that's given us by the Constitution is the Second Amendment because we have a right to defend ourselves, and that's the bottom line, when a government becomes too intrusive to the point that we can't make a living, what do you leave us ? My voice only goes so far. At some point, we might have to fight. Do I want that ? Absolutely not. That's why we're using political mechanisms, peaceful mechanisms so that we don't have to get there.

4. 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.

5. William Barr:

   The inspector general's report now makes clear that the FBI launched an intrusive investigation of a William Barr presidential campaign on the thinnest of suspicions, that, in my view, were insufficient to justify the steps taken, it is also clear that, from its inception the evidence produced by the investigation was consistently exculpatory.