| 单词 | obtrusively |
| 释义 | obtrusively (once / 29256 pages) adv Use the adverb obtrusively to mean "in a noticeable way." You could describe your brother's enormous television as stretching obtrusively across his entire living room wall, for example. Something is done obtrusively when in gets in the way or is glaringly obvious. Cell phone towers often loom obtrusively above fields and forests, and annoying people tend to talk obtrusively throughout movies. Obtrusively comes from the adjective obtrusive, which in turn is rooted in the Latin word obtrudere, "to thrust upon or to press into," from ob, "toward," and trudere, "to thrust." WORD FAMILYobtrusive: obtrusively, obtrusiveness, unobtrusive+/obtrude: obtruded, obtrudes, obtruding, obtrusive/unobtrusive: unobtrusively, unobtrusiveness USAGE EXAMPLESLikewise the 4.7in iPhone 6 already offers a larger screen so why go for something what many will feel is obtrusively large? Forbes(Aug 07, 2014) The "winter boughs" call up no obtrusively eloquent metaphor, no effortful adjectives or verbs: they are simply "spidery" and "twitched in a breeze". The Guardian(Feb 18, 2013) Trollope liked to give some of his characters obtrusively symbolic names, wilfully violating the conventions of realism. The Guardian(Dec 14, 2012) adv in an obtrusive manner Ant unobtrusively in an unobtrusive manner |
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