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English
Etymology 1
Adjective
obstrusive
- Misspelling of obtrusive.
Etymology 2
From obstruse + -ive. Compare abstruse, abstrusive.
Adjective
obstrusive (comparative more obstrusive, superlative most obstrusive)
- (rare, dated) Abstruse.
1655, Thomas Stanley, “Anaxagoras”, in The history of philosophy, London:Pericles Son of Xantippus being instructed by Anaxagoras, could easily reduce the exercise of his mind from secret obstrusive things to publick popular causes.
2012 [1967], Mario Bunge, Scientific Research II: The Search for Truth, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, →ISBN, 9.2.9, page 17:If so, how is it possible for a teleological question to elicit fruitful research and for the teleological answers to the same question to be unenlightening and even obstrusive?
1981, Marcelo Dascal, “Strategies of Understanding”, in Meaning and Understanding, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 343:Classification may thus become an obstacle rather than an aid to understanding. At best, it is but one of the strategies of understanding which, as the other ones, must be abandoned as soon as it becomes obstrusive.