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obtrusive

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9 lettersPronunciation /əbˈtɹuːsɪv/Part of speech adjectiveSorted beiorstuvStarts with OEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. undesirably noticeable

Word origin

From Latin obtrūsus + English -ive (suffix meaning ‘of the nature of’, forming adjectives). Obtrūsus is the perfect passive participle of obtrūdō, a variant of obstrūdō (“to push, shove, or thrust against or into”), from ob- (prefix meaning ‘against; towards’) + trūdō (“to push, shove, or thrust”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *trewd- (“to push; to thrust”)).

Used in a sentence

  • The office manager is an unpleasantly obtrusive individual.
  • Her vertue and the conſcience of her worth, / That would be woo'd, and not unfought be won, / Not obvious, not obtruſive, but retir'd, / The more deſirable, […]
  • He has an obtrusive forehead.

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