intrusive, adj. 1. intruding, interruptive, obtrusive, invasive; irruptive, ingressive, incursive, incoming; interfering, meddling, meddlesome, inquisitive, Inf. nosy, Inf. snoopy, prying; distracting, disturbing, importunate.
2. annoying, bothersome, irksome, worrisome, troublesome, irritating, vexatious; officious, presumptuous, impertinent, forward, pushing,
intuit, v. 1. .sense, feel, realize, discover, become aware of, know, feel in one's bones, Inf. have a hunch, Inf. have a sneaking suspicion.
2. perceive, grasp, understand; see, comprehend, apprehend; ken, fathom, take in.
intuition, n. 1. discernment, perception, perspicacity, percipience, sagacity; apprehension, comprehension, understanding, grasp, mental hold.
2. insight, clairvoyance, divination; instinct, prompting, sixth sense; foreknowledge, precognition, presentiment.
3. intimation, hint, clue; inkling, glimmer, glimmering, a feeling in one's bones, Inf. hunch, Both pi. vibrations, SI. vibes; qualm, suspicion, misgiving; boding, foreboding, forewarning, premonition, omen, augury, portent.
4. telepathy, extrasensory perception, ESP, clairvoyance, second sight.
intuitive, adj. 1. instinctive, involuntary, intuition al, untaught, unpremeditated, noninferential; impulsive, automatic, immediate, spontaneous, direct, on the spot; emotional, visceral, intestinal, Inf. seat-of-the-pants, Inf. played by ear, SI. gut; inborn, inbred, innate, ingenerate; immanent, indwelling, inherent, indigenous, intrinsic.
2. perceptive, insightful, clairvoyant, presentient, knowing; discerning, percipient, discriminating,
intumesce, v. swell, tumefy, become tumid, Obs. in-crassate; distend, inflate, bloat, puff out, blow up, bubble up, dome; protrude, bulge, bag, belly; fill out, fatten; expand, extend, spread, spread out, outspread, stretch, stretch out; enlarge, make larger, increase, grow, magnify, augment.
intumescence, n. 1. swelling, bloating, tumefaction, turgescence, turgidness, turgidity; distention, inflation, expansion, extension, spread; enlargement, increase, amplification, widening, thickening, broadening, dilation, dilatation.
2. protuberance, protrusion, projection, growth, bulge, excrescence, tumor, tuberosity,
inundate, v. 1. flood, overflow, deluge, overrun, pour over; submerge, drown, cover, engulf, bury; drench, saturate, soak; surge, swell, stream forth, pour forth, disembogue, debouch.
2. overwhelm, overpower, overspread, overburden; sate, glut, choke, fill [s.o.] up to his ears; bog down, mire down, swamp,
inundation, n. 1. flood, deluge, flash flood, alluvion, freshet, Brit, spate; overflow, spillover; torrent, cataract; tidal wave, high tides, roller, breaker, tsunami; cloudburst, downpour, drenching rain; gullywasher, Inf. gullywhomper, monsoon.
2. outpouring, overflowing, flow, stream, tide, flush, wave, cascade; plenteousness, Obs. galore, profusion; overabundance, superabundance, plethora, excess, nimiety; superfluity, surplus, SI. enough to choke a horse; All Inf. tons, barrels, heaps,
inurbane, adj. indelicate, uncourtly, ungallant, indecorous, ungracious, ungentlemanly, unladylike; ill-bred, ill-mannered, bad-mannered, unmannerly, rude, impolite, uncivil, unceremonious, discourteous, disrespectful, misbehaved; brash, bold, hoydenish, Scot. randy; brazen, barefaced, insolent, impudent, insulting, impertinent, pert, saucy, fresh; gruff, surly, sullen, bearish; inconsiderate, insensitive, tactless, Brit. misleared.