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Obtrusive definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

OBTRU'SIVE, a. Disposed to obtrude any thing upon others; inclined to intrude or thrust one's self among others, or to enter uninvited.
Not obvious, not obtrusive, but retired, the more desirable.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: undesirably noticeable; "the obtrusive behavior of a spoiled child"; "equally obtrusive was the graffiti" [syn: obtrusive, noticeable] [ant: unnoticeable, unobtrusive]
2: sticking out; protruding

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1667 1. a. forward in manner or conduct <obtrusive behavior> b. undesirably prominent 2. thrust out ; protruding <a sharp obtrusive edge> Synonyms: see impertinent • obtrusively adverb • obtrusiveness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 unpleasantly or unduly noticeable. 2 obtruding oneself. Derivatives: obtrusively adv. obtrusiveness n. Etymology: as OBTRUDE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Obtrusive Ob*tru"sive, a. Disposed to obtrude; inclined to intrude or thrust one's self or one's opinions upon others, or to enter uninvited; forward; pushing; intrusive. -- Ob*tru"sive*ly, adv. -- Ob*tru"sive*ness, n. Not obvious, not obtrusive, but retired. --Milton.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you say that someone or something is obtrusive, you think they are noticeable in an unpleasant way. These heaters are less obtrusive and are easy to store away in the summer. ADJ • obtrusively Hawke got up and walked obtrusively out of the building. ADV: ADV with v

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Intrusive, forward, officious, inclined to obtrude.

Moby Thesaurus

aggressively self-confident, arrant, arrogant, audacious, biggety, blatant, bold, brazen, brazenfaced, bumptious, busy, chesty, cocky, cold, colorful, conceited, conspicuous, contumelious, cool, crude, disdainful, extravagant, familiar, flagrant, flaring, flaunting, forceful, forward, garish, gaudy, glaring, gorgeous, hanging out, hubristic, immodest, importunate, in relief, in the foreground, insolent, insulting, interfering, interruptive, intervenient, intrusive, invasive, know-it-all, loud, lurid, meddlesome, meddling, meretricious, notable, noticeable, notorious, officious, ostensible, outstanding, overpresumptuous, overweening, overwise, peacockish, peacocky, perk, perky, pert, presuming, presumptuous, procacious, prominent, pronounced, puffed up, pushy, salient, screaming, self-conceited, self-opinionated, sensational, shameless, smart-alecky, spectacular, staring, stark-staring, sticking out, striking, stuck-up, swelled-headed, tawdry, uppish, uppity, vulgar