Usually means: Noticeably invasive or overly prominent.
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  1. obtrusive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. obtrusive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. obtrusive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. obtrusive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. obtrusive: Vocabulary.com
  6. obtrusive: Wordnik
  7. obtrusive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. obtrusive: Wiktionary
  9. obtrusive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. obtrusive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. obtrusive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Obtrusive, obtrusive: Dictionary.com
  13. obtrusive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Obtrusive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. obtrusive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. obtrusive: Rhymezone
  17. obtrusive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. obtrusive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. obtrusive: Free Dictionary
  20. obtrusive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. obtrusive: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. obtrusive: Legal dictionary

(Note: See obtrusively as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  (figurative)
adjective:  Of a person: overly assertive, bold, or domineering; pushy; also, ostentatious.
adjective:  Of a thing: noticeable or prominent, especially in a displeasing way.
adjective:  (obsolete) Protruding or sticking out, especially in a way that obstructs.

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