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Dictionary Definition

unobtrusive adj : not obtrusive or undesirably noticeable; "a quiet, unobtrusive life of self-denial" [syn: unnoticeable] [ant: obtrusive]

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English

Adjective

  1. not noticeable or blatant; inconspicuous
    • "Sometimes she and Miss Baker talked at once, unobtrusively and with a bantering inconsequence that was never quite chatter, that was as cool as their white dresses and their impersonal eyes in the absence of all desire." --F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Chapter 1

Translations

unobtrusive

Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words

Attic, aesthetic, artistic, back-door, backstairs, chaste, choice, clandestine, classic, covert, excellent, feline, furtive, hidlings, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, humble, in good taste, meek, modest, of choice, of quality, pleasing, privy, pure, quiet, restrained, shifty, simple, skulking, slinking, slinky, sly, sneaking, sneaky, stealthy, subdued, surreptitious, tasteful, tasty, unaffected, unambitious, unaspiring, unassuming, unboastful, under-the-counter, under-the-table, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded, understated, unimposing, unostentatious, unpresuming, unpresumptuous, unpretending, unpretentious, well-chosen
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