Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Tending to protrude; protruding.
- adjective Unduly or disagreeably conspicuous; obtrusive.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Thrusting or impelling forward; obtrusive; protruding: as, protrusive motion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Thrusting or impelling forward.
- adjective Capable of being protruded; protrusile.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective that
protrudes ;protruding - adjective rather
conspicuous ;obtrusive
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective thrusting outward
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Examples
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Book of Hours begins with an image of the twin towers, protrusive amongst the mid-rise buildings that surrounded them at ground zero.
Rachel Anne Farquharson: George Walker's Book of Hours: The Significance of a Decade Passed Rachel Anne Farquharson 2011
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Book of Hours begins with an image of the twin towers, protrusive amongst the mid-rise buildings that surrounded them at ground zero.
Rachel Anne Farquharson: George Walker's Book of Hours: The Significance of a Decade Passed Rachel Anne Farquharson 2011
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Book of Hours begins with an image of the twin towers, protrusive amongst the mid-rise buildings that surrounded them at ground zero.
Rachel Anne Farquharson: George Walker's Book of Hours: The Significance of a Decade Passed Rachel Anne Farquharson 2011
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Book of Hours begins with an image of the twin towers, protrusive amongst the mid-rise buildings that surrounded them at ground zero.
Rachel Anne Farquharson: George Walker's Book of Hours: The Significance of a Decade Passed Rachel Anne Farquharson 2011
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Book of Hours begins with an image of the twin towers, protrusive amongst the mid-rise buildings that surrounded them at ground zero.
Rachel Anne Farquharson: George Walker's Book of Hours: The Significance of a Decade Passed Rachel Anne Farquharson 2011
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A lustreless protrusive eye Stares from the protozoic slime the future looks fine
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The second, I have already articulated: because I must find outlets to purge my illness as a participant in this disgusting sub-race of individuals with testosterone-driven protrusive genitalia, who has at one or more points in his life harbored thoughts of sexual violence toward women, even, if only by engaging in sexual intercourse that was devoid of genuine love or affection.
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He was not a handsome man, having a protrusive nose, high cheek-bones, and long upper lip; but there was a manliness about his face which redeemed it.
The Duke's Children 2004
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His beard went all round under his chin, and was clipped into the appearance of a stiff thick hedge — equally thick, and equally broad, and equally protrusive at all parts.
John Caldigate 2004
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Nature is 'sheep's wool on barbed wire,' equipment such as a harrow pin, sledge-head, or trowel, as if its center were protrusive objects and not recessive vistas.
Heaney Agonistes Ellmann, Richard 1985
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