Definitions for obtrusive

obtrusive ob·tru·sive

Spelling: [uh b-troo-siv]
IPA: /əbˈtru sɪv/

Obtrusive is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 538 anagrams from letters in obtrusive (beiorstuv).

Definitions for obtrusive

adjective

  1. having or showing a disposition to obtrude, as by imposing oneself or one's opinions on others.
  2. (of a thing) obtruding itself:
  3. protruding; projecting.

Origin of obtrusive

1660-70; Latin obtrūs(us) (see obtrusion) + -ive

Examples for obtrusive

It mattered not that her presence there showed her to be vulgar, impertinent, and obtrusive.

There was none of the obtrusive selfishness of an ordinary horse in his ways.

"Not obvious, not obtrusive, but retired," he seemed to shun observation.

He was not obtrusive, but was content to keep at heel, and to be permitted to admire.

Just a cottage or two to remind one that there is a population, but not obtrusive.

They were in their way quite as splendid and obtrusive as Madame Corinne was in hers.

There was control over it, but the control was not obtrusive.

But it is not the noisy, clamorous, obtrusive life of the city.

He could not breathe until the abbe had freed him from his obtrusive society.

There is firstly that obtrusive militarism from which we cannot for a moment escape.

Word Value for obtrusive
Scrable

14

Words with friends

17

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