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unobtrusive
[uhn-uhb-troo-siv]
unobtrusive
/ ˌʌ²ÔÉ™²úˈ³Ù°ù³Ü˲õɪ±¹ /
adjective
not noticeable or conspicuous
Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms
- unobtrusively adverb
- unobtrusiveness noun
- ËŒ³Ü²Ô´Ç²úˈ³Ù°ù³Ü²õ¾±±¹±ð±ô²â adverb
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of unobtrusive1
Example Sentences
Watch her three short films — “Medusa,†“Hannahs†and “If Found,†all available on YouTube — and you’ll glimpse the unobtrusive, observant style she brings to “Good One,†which captures the still-festering male rivalry between middle-aged friends.
Nazi concentration-camp guards used to enjoy unobtrusive second acts by embedding themselves into American middle-class communities.
On the sixth day, we realised no safe place remained in Kigali so we joined the exodus - trying to be as unobtrusive as possible at the roadblocks manned by machete-wielding militia men.
Kwak, poised and graceful, lent a surprising calm to the show, unobtrusive when needed and expressive when called for.
Nursing, engineering and neuropsychology researchers at Florida Atlantic University are testing and evaluating a readily and rapidly available, unobtrusive in-vehicle sensing system they have developed.
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