intrusive

Examples

• All

• The apparently intrusive layer becomes the subject of heated debate, but I can't stay for the outcome.

  Academic text (2002)

• Brown et al. (2001) suggested that a social intervention plan should begin with the least intrusive strategies.

  Academic text (2007)

• Mother and two of her children relax outside their home in Nampunga, Tanzania, without any barrier against intrusive wildlife.

  Academic text (2009)

• I have focused particularly on health promotion through information provision and education, since this is a significant area of focus for those trying to effect behavior change, and an area of health promotion typically seen as benign in comparison to more intrusive interventions such as legal regulation.

  Academic text (2018)

• Gated communities, often involving armed patrols and electric fencing, are perhaps the most visible and intrusive sign of this trend: this particular form of privatization began to spread dramatically in the 1980s to the point where, in 1997, there were 20,000 such residential areas.

  Academic text (2001)

• Geologists study intrusive igneous rocks to understand the processes beneath the Earth's surface.

• After the eruption, the intrusive material solidified and created new mountain ranges.

Synonyms

I

irruptive

vsintrusive

• Specialized

9.9

Rock that solidified from magma deep under the earth's surface, such as granite

is formed by forcing molten rock into cracks within older rock layers

Antonyms

E

extrusive

• Specialized

9.9

Rock that forms when lava from a volcano cools quickly on the ground, like basalt

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology