Dictionary Definition
unobtrusive adj : not obtrusive or undesirably
noticeable; "a quiet, unobtrusive life of self-denial" [syn:
unnoticeable] [ant:
obtrusive]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
- 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
- Finnish: huomaamaton
- Norwegian: ikke/lite påtrengende
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