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obtrusive
Definition: (adjective) overly prominent.
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Category Index Houghton Mifflin

The Category Index is designed to provide the maximum number of words choices for the user. Each synonym group ends with one or more cross-references of the type See HAPPY. The word in capital letters is a main entry in the Category Index. At the main entry word in the Index—in this instance happy—there appears a list of Thesaurus entries that are related to the synonym group with the cross-reference HAPPY.
happy
noun
delight
elation
exultation
fulfillment
happiness
heaven
. . . .

unhappy
noun
complaint
disappointment
distress
gloom
grief
grouch
misery
mutter
This list contains words having related meanings or words of opposite meanings. Looking these words up in the Thesaurus proper offers the user many more word choices. This Index is especially helpful when the word sought for is only vaguely known. For a fuller explanation see the introduction to the Category Index.


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