interloper
Noun: 1. An intruder or trespasser: A person who enters a place, situation, or group where they are not welcome or do not belong, often interfering in the affairs of others without permission or right. 2. An unauthorized trader or meddler: Historically, a person who traded without a license or legal right within a territory controlled by a monopoly, such as a trading company.
The word "interloper" is used to describe a person whose presence is unwelcome, intrusive, or unauthorized. It carries a negative connotation, implying that the person is an outsider causing disruption.
Examples: - The security guard escorted the interloper out of the private party. - She felt like an interloper at the family reunion because she wasn't a relative. - In the 17th century, the East India Company tried to stop interlopers from trading in its territories.
- To be/feel like an interloper: To have the sensation of being an unwelcome outsider in a particular setting.
- Despite being invited, he couldn't shake the feeling that he was an interloper in their tight-knit group of friends.
- Interlope (verb, rare): To intrude or interfere in the affairs of others.
- He had no right to interlope in their private dispute.
- Intruder: A person who enters a place without permission.
- Trespasser: A person who enters someone's land or property without permission.
- Outsider: A person who does not belong to a particular group.
- Meddler: A person who interferes in something that is not their concern.
- Treat someone as an interloper: To regard or behave toward someone as an unwelcome outsider.
- The old members of the club treated the new recruit as an interloper.
- someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission