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Obtrusive

//əbˈtɹuːsɪv// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of a person: overly assertive, bold, or domineering; pushy; also, ostentatious. figuratively

    "The office manager is an unpleasantly obtrusive individual."

  2. 2
    Of a thing: noticeable or prominent, especially in a displeasing way. figuratively

    "He has an obtrusive forehead."

  3. 3
    Protruding or sticking out, especially in a way that obstructs. obsolete

    "The facade of the building was ornamented with obtrusive sculpted designs."

Adjective
  1. 1
    undesirably noticeable wordnet
  2. 2
    sticking out; protruding wordnet

Etymology

PIE word *h₁epi 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”)).

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