Origin: Latin suffix -ive
Obtrusive has 3 different meanings across 1 category:
sticking out; protruding
undesirably noticeable
"the obtrusive behavior of a spoiled child"
"equally obtrusive was the graffiti"
Sticking out; protruding.
PIE word h₁epi 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")).