Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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obtrusive

UK /əbˈtɹuːsɪv/ · US /əbˈtɹusɪv/ adjective

  1. adjective Of a person: overly assertive, bold, or domineering; pushy; also, ostentatious. “The office manager is an unpleasantly obtrusive individual.”
  2. adjective Of a thing: noticeable or prominent, especially in a displeasing way. “He has an obtrusive forehead.”
  3. adjective (obsolete) Protruding or sticking out, especially in a way that obstructs. “The facade of the building was ornamented with obtrusive sculpted designs.”

Synonyms

intrusive overassertive overbearing sharp-elbowed authoritarian autocratic bossy coercive commanding controlling demanding despotic dictatorial dominant domineering forceful harsh heavy-handed iron-fisted iron-handed noticeable

Antonyms

inobtrusive nonobtrusive unobtrusive discreet

Etymology

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”)).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Disposed to obtrude; inclined to intrude or thrust one's self or one's opinions upon others, or to enter uninvited; forward; pushing; intrusive.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “obtrusive”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “obtrusive” (best matches first).