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OBTRUSIVE
Definition of OBTRUSIVE
adjective
Of a person: overly assertive, bold, or domineering; pushy; also, ostentatious.
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Where it comes from
From Latin obtrūsus + English -ive (suffix meaning ‘of the nature of’, forming adjectives). Obtrūsus is the perfect passive participle of obtrūdō, a variant of obstrūdō (“to push, shove, or thrust against or into”), from ob- (prefix meaning ‘against; towards’) + trūdō (“to push, shove, or thrust”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *trewd- (“to push; to thrust”)).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Proto-Indo-European
- Latin
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,700)
How it is built
Same root, OBTRUSIVE · 1 relative in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
OBTRUSIVE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 18 boards so far. 43 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 46, 5 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 159, 26 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First found by a player on Day 46, 5 July 2026.
Built from these letters
OBTRUSIVE starts with O and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read BEIORSTUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start OBTRUS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 46
Could you have found OBTRUSIVE?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 46 - and most players walked straight past it.
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