0 affecting someone in a way that annoys them and makes them feel uncomfortable:
intrusive questioning
intrusive lighting
1 being involved in a situation where you are not wanted or do not belong:
He’s fought for less intrusive government.
2 (of hot melted rock) flowing into layers or cracks of rocks that already exist:
The most ominous form was government-sponsored health insurance, with its threat of intrusive federal bureaucracies.
They could be recruited to causes which explained social ills in terms of an intrusive federal state and liberal attempts to extend rights.
But if the intrusive vowel is not a syllable nucleus, then the goal of the syncope is met : there is no sequence of unstressed syllables.
The charcoal sample came from between the vessels and must be intrusive.
At the same time the monarchy was seen as an alien, intrusive power that ruined social relations and caused the rains to fail.
If an intrusive consonant is underlyingly present, it must be a final element, the presence of which is obscured in certain environments due to vocalisation.
His problems include intrusive voices and are such as to require therapy.
This suggestion is intriguing, because it relates a language-particular distribution of intrusive vowels to that language's system of phonological contrasts.
