Obtrusive

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster]


  
           Not obvious, not obtrusive, but retired. --Milton.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  90 Moby Thesaurus words for "obtrusive":
     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