Definition of Not intrusive

1. Adjective. Not interfering or meddling.

Exact synonyms: Unintrusive
Attributes: Intrusiveness, Meddlesomeness, Officiousness
Antonyms: Intrusive

Lexicographical Neighbors of Not Intrusive

not give somebody the time of day
not guilties
not guilty
not half
not half bad
not happy, Jan
not hardly
not have a bean
not have a leg to stand on
not have the faintest
not if I see you first
not in Kansas anymore
not in a million years
not in the least
not in the slightest
not intrusive (current term)
not invented here
not kin(p)
not know what hit one
not know which end is up
not late
not leave one's thoughts
not listed
not long
not long for this world
not much cop
not much of anything
not on
not on your life
not on your nelly

Literary usage of Not intrusive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Society in Rome Under the Caesars by William Ralph Inge (1888)
"... was not intrusive, partly because it was so strong. The military force on which it chiefly depended was generally kept away at the frontiers, ..."

2. The Fatherhood of God by Thomas Griffith (1862)
"That is, the evil apparent in all natural things is to be regarded as not primitive but superinduced—yet not intrusive, but by Divine permission—nay, ..."

3. Union--disunion--reunion: Three Decades of Federal Legislation. 1855 to 1885 by Samuel Sullivan Cox (1886)
"The legislature has no authority in this matter ; any action on the same would be surplusage, if not intrusive. The committee, therefore, ask to be excused ..."

4. Union-disunion-reunion: Three Decades of Federal Legislation. 1855 to 1885 by Samuel Sullivan Cox (1885)
"The legislature has no authority in this matter; any action on the same would be surplusage, if not intrusive. The committee, therefore, ask to be excused ..."

5. Nature by Nature Publishing Group, Norman Lockyer (1883)
"By and by we shall learn that all masses of granite are not intrusive, but that certain considerable areas of this rock, although agreeing in composition ..."

6. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1904)
"The rocks are not intrusive, but consist of lavas and ashes, often exhibiting alternating bauds of rhyolite and andesite. ..."

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