intrusive

Meanings

Adjective

• Tending to intrude; doing that which is not welcome; interrupting or disturbing; entering without permission or welcome.
• Of rocks: forced, while in a plastic or molten state, into the cavities or between the cracks or layers of other rocks.
• epenthetic

Noun

• An igneous rock that is forced, while molten, into cracks or between other layers of rock

Related

Similar words

• unwelcome
• uninvited
• disturbing
• interrupting

Opposite words

• unintrusive

Origin

• , -ive.