interloper
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8.9
- noun
- /ˈɪntərˌloʊpər/
:
intruso
- Since I am a classicist, I regard myself as something of an interloper on a history panel.
- cultural interloper
And you know, Brogan will never take your job and how dare I, you know, court affections with an interloper.
- And you know, Brogan will never take your job and how dare I, you know, court affections with an interloper.
- So now I suppose that we will have two interlopers or two two Co hosts to the show.
- Is it a sense that you were once thickened together and now it feels like there's an interloper?
Examples
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Because she was an interloper or an outsider in so many ways.
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We talked a lot about how to deal with raccoons, rabbits, and other garden interlopers, laughed, and ate too much linguini.
Fiction book (1993) -
His behavior suggested that I was the interloper in the house, not him.
Fiction book (2002) -
Be it known: You are interlopers in a country where you are neither wanted nor welcome.
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I had been invited but couldn't rid myself of feeling like an interloper.
Fiction book (1992) -
Although I have two degrees from Stanford, I still feel a little bit like an interloper on this exquisitely beautiful campus.
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Well, thanks to the organizers for allowing an economist interloper into this celebration.
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But humans are interlopers in Antarctica and must try to minimize their impact.
Academic text (1990) -
The kingdoms of the Bayou people had long seen the Han Chinese to their north as foreign interlopers, and relations between the two were complicated.
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As an interloper in the tight-knit community, he always felt out of place and unwelcome.
Synonyms
283
4.1
A person who is not accepted by a group or community
240
3.9
A person who enters a place without permission to steal or harm people
25
4.9
A person who goes onto someone else's land or into their building without permission
11
9.4
A person who is not welcome in a place, often for official reasons
2
3.8
A person who comes to an event without being invited or wanted
A person who is not wanted in a place or group
A person who interrupts a discussion by speaking out of turn
Antonyms
How Unwelcome
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Interloper is a word for someone who goes where they are not wanted; a helpful way to remember it is to see inter- as 'between' and the -lope part like 'to run', so an interloper is someone who 'runs in between' others — in other words, an 'intruder'.