Dictionary entry
Unobtrusive
Pronunciation: /ʌnəbˈtruːsɪv/
Pronunciation
/ʌnəbˈtruːsɪv/
Myanmar Meaning
ကိုယ့်ကိုယ်ကို သတိထားမခံရစေသော။
Definition
unobtrusive /ʌnǝb'tru:sÇv / adj ( usu approv ) ထင္းမေနေသာ။ က်စ္လ်စ္ကုပ္႐ုပ္ေသာ။ an unobtrusive design ❍ a shy, unobtrusive man ❍ She tried to make herself unobtrusive so that she could overhear their conversation. ❏ unobtrusively adv မသိမသာ။ The buildings blend unobtrusively into the surrounding countryside.
Examples
- ‘So the Government
- too
- has been operating in a quiet
- unobtrusive manner.’
- ‘We drive a Honda Civic
- so he has to scrunch down and stick his head in the window
- trying to be unobtrusive about it.’
- ‘Brill filmed this by sitting with the counsellors and covering the action with unobtrusive moves of his small camera.’
- ‘The birds were constantly on the move
- their quiet and unobtrusive progress hiding very considerable speed.’
- ‘The Netgear WPN824 is a compact
- unobtrusive box with several internal antennas
- apparently.’
- ‘And for this he had music that was controlled
- unobtrusive and keeping with the mood and the situation.’
- ‘I don't know if this was because she was just trying to be unobtrusive
- or if she thought we were up to some nefarious activity.’
- ‘Quiet and unobtrusive in our canoes
- we could paddle up close to herds of elephant standing in the shallows and watch as they threw up wet sand to cool off.’
- ‘So pure and yet teeming with cultural meanings
- white is at the same time unobtrusive and attention getting.’
- ‘I found an unobtrusive niche
- a little cliff garden of thrift and sea campion which gave me a vee-shaped eyrie over the water.’
- ‘Last week Finance Minister Jaswant Singh
- in his quiet and unobtrusive way delivered a triple whammy.’
- ‘Swenson said most of the Marysville track's events would be small and unobtrusive.’
- ‘The quiet
- unobtrusive Scot has gone about his task of having the course in pristine condition.’
- ‘Throughout the meal our waiters were unobtrusive and efficient.’
- ‘The unobtrusive dialect and horrifying irony here make this one of Nelson's best lyrics.’
- ‘Edward was a tall man
- quiet and unobtrusive
- but always managing to sort things out and keep all in order.’
- ‘The music
- mainly selections from the 1980s played at a moderate volume
- is unobtrusive.’
- ‘A quiet
- unobtrusive presence
- Recoing has been earning effusive praise for this role and rightly so.’
- ‘The news was placed in an unobtrusive corner of a local newspaper.’
- ‘The picture is at its best when Blaustein's unobtrusive film crew eavesdrop on the day-to-day family life of the wrestlers.’