Obstrusive
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Obstrusive is an adjective meaning Misspelling of obtrusive.
Meaning
Misspelling of obtrusive.
More Meanings
- (rare, dated) Abstruse.
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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include obstruse, abstrusive, abstract, nonabstruse, recondite, non-abstruse.
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