Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

obstrusive

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ob-stru-sive
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Misspelling of obtrusive.

adj

Dated

Example Sentences

"Pericles Son of Xantippus being instructed by Anaxagoras, could easily reduce the exercise of his mind from secret obstrusive things to publick popular causes."
"If so, how is it possible for a teleological question to elicit fruitful research and for the teleological answers to the same question to be unenlightening and even obstrusive?"
"Classification may thus become an obstacle rather than an aid to understanding. At best, it is but one of the strategies of understanding which, as the other ones, must be abandoned as soon as it becomes obstrusive."

Etymology

From obstruse + -ive. Compare abstruse, abstrusive.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: obstruse

Usage

Dated

Inflected Forms

more obstrusive (comparative) most obstrusive (superlative)

Questions

What does obstrusive mean?: Misspelling of obtrusive.
Where does obstrusive come from?: From obstruse + -ive. Compare abstruse, abstrusive.

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