intrusive
/ɪnˈtɹuːsɪv/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.33 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Tending to intrude; doing that which is not welcome; interrupting or disturbing; entering without permission or welcome.
adj
Of rocks: forced, while in a plastic or molten state, into the cavities or between the cracks or layers of other rocks.
adj
adj
Designating a type of collection in which each item keeps track of what collection it is in, rather than the more conventional approach of a collection keeping track of what items it contains. An intrusive collection does not "own" its contents and a single item can be part of multiple intrusive collections.