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Definition: Obtrusive |
ObtrusiveAdjective1. Undesirably noticeable; "the obtrusive behavior of a spoiled child"; "equally obtrusive was the graffiti". 2. Sticking out; protruding. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "obtrusive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1663. (references) |
Synonym: ObtrusiveSynonym: noticeable (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: unobtrusive (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Discourtesy | Uncivil, ungracious, unceremonious; cool; pert, forward, obtrusive, impudent, rude, saucy, precocious. |
Hindrance | In the way of, unfavorable; onerous, burdensome; cumbrous, cumbersome; obtrusive. |
Vulgarity | Gaudy, tawdry, overornamented, baroque, rococo; bedizened, tricked out, gingerbread; obtrusive. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Obtrusive |
| English words defined with "obtrusive": Inobtrusive ♦ noticeable ♦ obtrusively ♦ quiet ♦ restrained ♦ unnoticeable, unobtrusive. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "obtrusive": Batman factor ♦ Growlers. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "obtrusive": touter. (references) |
| Play | Caption |
 | Hot rod; muscle car; engine; rev; revving; 8-cylinder; fast; drag racing; car racing; brash; brassy; brazen; chintzy; coarse; crass; crude; flamboyant; flashy; garish; gaudy; glaring; lurid; meretricious; obnoxious; obtrusive; ostentatious; raucous; rude. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Not the less, however, came this importunately obtrusive sense of change |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Vietnam | Obstacles to its development include the low number of Internet subscribers in-country, obtrusive firewalls, limited bandwidth and other problems with the Internet infrastructure, limitations of the financial system (including the low number of credit cards in use), and regulatory barriers. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Martin van Buren | 1837-1841 | To enter on this occasion into a further or more minute exposition of my views on the various questions of domestic policy would be as obtrusive as it is probably unexpected. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Obtrusive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Obtrusive" is used about 84 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 84 | 36,109 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "obtrusive": non-obtrusive, too-obtrusive. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
obtrusive | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "obtrusive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | që futet pa ftuar, imponues (commanding, compelling, dreadful, overbearing), furacak (interloper, intruder). (various references) | |
Arabic | فضولي (busy, busybody, curious, inquisitive, intrusive, meddlesome, nosy, officious, prying), متطفل (meddlesome, parasite, snoop, sponger), لحوح, دخيل (alien, foreign, outlandish). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | нахален (arrogant, cheeky, contumelious, flip, forward, huffish, impudent, insolent, jumped-up, malapert, nervy, offensive, perky, presuming, sassy, saucy, snotty), натрапчив (adhesive, compulsive, intrusive, meddlesome, officious, pragmatic, pragmatical, pushy), досаден (aggravating, annoying, boring, bothersome, importunate, intrusive, irksome, irritating, lengthy, long winded, monotonous, mundane, officious, pain in the neck, painful, pesky, pestiferous, pestilent, plaguesome, plaguy, ponderous, prolix, provoking, tedious, tiresome, tiring, vexatious, weariful, wearisome, weary). (various references) | |
Chinese | 阻碍 (Hampered, Hampering, Hamstringing, Hamstrung, Obstruct, Obstructed, Obstructing, Obstruction, Obstructive, Obtrusively, stunted, stunting). (various references) | |
Czech | vtíravý (catchy, haunting, ingratiating, obsessive), vlezlý (nosy, officious), dotìrný (blatant, interfering, intrusive, molestful, officious). (various references) | |
Farsi | فضول (Blab, Blabber, Busybody, Inquisitive, Meddlesome, Nosey, Nosy, Obtruder, Officious, Pry, Pryer). (various references) | |
Finnish | tungettelevainen (importunate, intrusive). (various references) | |
French | prosexigène, pénétrant, indiscret, importun, affiché. (various references) | |
German | aufdringlich (aggressive, brash, gratingly, importunate, importunately, insistent, intrusive, intrusively, meddlesome, meretricious, obtrusively, pushing, pushy, urgent). (various references) | |
Greek | φορτικόσ (burdensome, cumbersome, cumbrous, importunate, pressing), ενοχλητικόσ (annoying, bothersome, importunate, meddlesome, offensive, pesky, plaguy, troublesome, troublous, vexatious, worrisome), οχληρόσ (bore, bothersome, irksome, pesky, pest, plaguy). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מתבלט, פלש י (invasive), טר" י (annoying, bothersome, pestering), "חק. (various references) | |
Hungarian | tolakodó (assertive, busybody, hustler, importunate, indiscreet, intruder, intrusive, jostling, meddler, meddlesome, self-assertive, shrill), szembeötlő (salient), feltűnő (bodacious, bold, conspicuous, flashy, flourish, loud, noisy, prominent, sensational, showy, sporty, upfront), átható (acute, intent, penetrating, penetrative, pervasive, piercing, poignant, shrill, trans). (various references) | |
Italian | importuno (clamorous, importunate, intrusive, meddlesome, obtruder, officious, pressing, teaser, troublesome). (various references) | |
Korean | 강"하" (Constrained). (various references) | |
Manx | seiyragh (piercing). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | obtrusiveay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | intruso (gatecrasher, incomer, interloper, intrusive, meddlesome, newcomer, outsider), intrometido (disruptive, meddlesome, nosey, nosy, officious, pragmatical, pushing, pushy, snooper), indiscreto (blabber, curious, forward, incautious, indiscreet, inquisitive, leaky, pushing), importuno (annoyer, importunate, inconvenient, intrusive, meddler, officious, pester, pestiferous, plaguesome, plaguy, rush, unwelcome, worrisome). (various references) | |
Romanian | obraznic (audacious, bad, barefaced, bold, boldly, brazenly, cheekily, cheeky, cocky, contemptuous, cool, disobedient, flippant, forward, fresh, graceless, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nasty, naughty, nervy, perky, pert, pertly, presumptuous, provocative, rebellious, sauce box, saucy, unruly, untoward, uppish), importun (troublesome), impertinent (cocky, gay, impertinent, insolent, insolently, provocative, rude), bãgãcios (busy body, kibitzer, meddler, meddlesome, nosy, officious, prying). (various references) | |
Russian | выступающий (outstanding, prominent, protrusive, salient, superincumbent). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nametljiv (clingy, importunate, intrusive, meddlesome, officious, suggestive). (various references) | |
Spanish | penetrante (acute, bitter, clear, deep, injudicious, invader, penetrating, penetrative, pervasive, piercing, probing, searching, sharp, shrewd), molesto (aggravating, annoying, bothering, bothersome, ill at ease, importunate, inconvenient, irksome, irritating, objectionable, obnoxious, plaguy, provoking, pushing, pushy, troublesome, trying, unwelcome, vexatious, vexed), llamativo (aggressive, arresting, blatant, catchpenny, effective, flamboyant, garish, gaudy, jazzy, screaming, showy, staring, startling, striking), intruso (gatecrasher, interloper, intruder, intrusive, marauder, outsider, trespasser), indiscreto (indiscreet, leaky, sieve, tactless, unadvised), importuno (importunate, troublesome), entrometido (busybody, interfering, interloper, meddler, meddlesome, meddling, pragmatic, pragmatical, prying), demasiado visible. (various references) | |
Swedish | påflugen (intrusive), påfallande (remarkable, striking). (various references) | |
Thai | ที่เข้าไปก่อความรำคาญ. (various references) | |
Turkish | zorla sokulan, sırnaşık (brash, brassy, importunate, intrusive, pushful, pushing, sassy, saucy, smarmy), sıkıntı veren, çıkıntılı (denticulated, protruding, protrusive, protuberant, ribbed, salient). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | виступаючий (outstanding, overhung, prognathic, prognathous), настирливий (adhesive, aggressive, hard bitten, importunate, obstinate), нав'язливий (haunting, obsessive). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | quấy rầy (bothersome, importunate, troublesome), khó chịu (accursed, accurst, annoyed, beastly, colour, devil, disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, incommodious, nasty, noisome, obnoxious, plaguesome, queer, tiresome, unacceptable, unpleasant, unpleasing, vile, vinegar), để tống ấn; có tính chất tống ấn l m phiền, để ép buộc. (various references) | |
Welsh | ymwthiol (aggressive, intrusive), ymwthgar (pushing). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "obtrusive": obtrusively, obtrusiveness, obtrusivenesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "obtrusive": unobtrusive. (additional references) | |
Words containing "obtrusive": unobtrusively, unobtrusiveness, unobtrusivenesses. (additional references) | |
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"Obtrusive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abtrusive, Obrazova, obstrusive, obtrussive, obttrusive, obtusive, optrusive, ostresov. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "obtrusive" (pronounced ubtruw"siv) |
| 8 | u b t r uw" s i v | unobtrusive. |
| 6 | -t r uw" s i v | intrusive. |
| 4 | -uw" s i v | abusive, allusive, collusive, conclusive, conducive, elusive, exclusive, illusive, inclusive, inconclusive, nonexclusive, reclusive. |
| 3 | -s i v | abrasive, adhesive, aggressive, apprehensive, aversive, coercive, cohesive, comprehensive, compulsive, convulsive, corrosive, counteroffensive, decisive, defensive, depressive, derisive, discursive, dismissive, dispersive, divisive, effusive, erosive, evasive, excessive, expansive, expensive, explosive, expressive, extensive, hypertensive, impassive, impressive, impulsive, incisive, indecisive, inexpensive, inoffensive, invasive, massive, missive, nonresponsive, obsessive, offensive, oppressive, passive, pensive, permissive, persuasive, pervasive, possessive, progressive, recessive, reflexive, regressive, repressive, repulsive, responsive, submissive, subversive, successive, unimpressive, unresponsive. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-i-o-r-s-t-u-v" | |
-1 letter: bouviers, virtuose, vitreous. | |
-2 letters: bouvier, bustier, obtuser, obverts, orbiest, ourebis, outvies, revuist, rubiest, stourie, stuiver, subvert, virtues. | |
-3 letters: bestir, bevors, bister, bistre, bistro, biters, boites, bourse, bruise, bruits, brutes, burets, buries, busier, buster, buteos, obtuse, obvert, orbits, ourebi, ouster, outers, outvie, rebuts, ribose, rivets, robust, routes, rubies, sobeit, sorbet, sortie, souter, soviet, stiver. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-i-o-r-s-t-u-v" | |
+2 letters: obstructive, obtrusively, unobtrusive. | |
+3 letters: obstructives. | |
+4 letters: obstructively, obtrusiveness, overambitious, subordinative, subventionary, unobtrusively. | |
+5 letters: antisubversion. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Sounds | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Quotations: Speeches 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Bibliography |
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