1.
[syn: obtrusive, noticeable]
2. sticking out; protruding;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
obtrusive
adj 1: undesirably noticeable; "the obtrusive behavior of a
spoiled child"; "equally obtrusive was the graffiti"
[syn: obtrusive, noticeable] [ant: unnoticeable,
unobtrusive]
2: sticking out; protruding
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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