Rude vs Intrusive - What's the difference?
rude | intrusive | Related terms |
bad-mannered
Somewhat obscene, pornographic, offensive.
tough, robust.
undeveloped, unskilled, basic.
* 2 Corinthians 11:6 (KVJ)
* (rfdate), Rudyard Kipling, The Conundrum of the Workshops
* 1767 , Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil Society
hearty, vigorous; (found particularly in the phrase rude health).
Tending or apt to intrude; doing that which is not welcome; interrupting or disturbing; entering without right or welcome.
(geology) Of rocks: forced, while in a plastic or molten state, into the cavities or between the cracks or layers of other rocks.
(geology) An igneous rock that is forced, while molten, into cracks or between other layers of rock
Rude is a related term of intrusive.
As a proper noun rude
is settlement in croatia, near zagreb.As an adjective intrusive is
tending or apt to intrude; doing that which is not welcome; interrupting or disturbing; entering without right or welcome.As a noun intrusive is
(geology) an igneous rock that is forced, while molten, into cracks or between other layers of rock.rude
English
(mismatch between senses and translations)Adjective
(er)- The girl was so rude to her boyfriend by screaming at him for no reason.
- But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge
- When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden's green and gold,
- Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mould;
- And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart,
- Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves, "It's pretty, but is it Art?"
- It might be apprehended, that among rude nations, where the means of subsistence are procured with so much difficulty, the mind could never raise itself above the consideration of this subject
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Did it ever cross your mind that he might find all those questions you ask intrusive ?