obtrusive

About 0.33 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

   The office manager is an unpleasantly obtrusive individual.

2. adjective Of a person: overly assertive, bold, or domineering; pushy; also, ostentatious.

   The office manager is an unpleasantly obtrusive individual.

3. adjective Of a thing: noticeable or prominent, especially in a displeasing way.

   He has an obtrusive forehead.

4. adjective Protruding or sticking out, especially in a way that obstructs.

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

Similar words

protrusive noticeable conspicuous intrusive hyperobtrusive blatant protrudent bumptious overbeetling obumbrant

Often followed by

and in than or as to that way but

Word family

obtrusively obtrusiveness obtrusivenesses