Meaning of unobtrusive in English

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  1. Pronunciation
  2. Qualitative Adjective
    1. Definitions

  1. Pronunciation

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  1. Qualitative Adjective

    unobtrusive

    Definitions

    1. not obtrusive or undesirably noticeable

    Examples

    • « a quiet, unobtrusive life of self-denial »

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Famous quotes

  • « The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. »
    Honore de Balzac
  • « Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject. »
    John Keats

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