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Intrusive vs Unobtrusive - What's the difference?

intrusive | unobtrusive |

As adjectives the difference between intrusive and unobtrusive

is that intrusive is tending or apt to intrude; doing that which is not welcome; interrupting or disturbing; entering without right or welcome while unobtrusive is not noticeable or blatant; inconspicuous.

As a noun intrusive

is an igneous rock that is forced, while molten, into cracks or between other layers of rock.

intrusive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Tending or apt to intrude; doing that which is not welcome; interrupting or disturbing; entering without right or welcome.
    • Did it ever cross your mind that he might find all those questions you ask intrusive ?
  • (geology) Of rocks: forced, while in a plastic or molten state, into the cavities or between the cracks or layers of other rocks.

    • Derived terms

    * intrusively * intrusiveness

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geology) An igneous rock that is forced, while molten, into cracks or between other layers of rock

    • References

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    unobtrusive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not noticeable or blatant; inconspicuous.
  • *
    • Sometimes she and Miss Baker talked at once, unobtrusively and with a bantering inconsequence that was never quite chatter, that was as cool as their white dresses and their impersonal eyes in the absence of all desire.