Friday, April 17, 2009

unobtrusive - (adj.): not easily noticed
  • Synonyms: inconspicuous, camouflaged, hidden, insignificant, shy, unnoticeable
  • Antonyms: conspicuous, obvious, loud, in-your-face
  • Word family: obtrusive, obtrusion
  • Origin: 1555, from L. obtrudere "thrust into, press upon," from un- “not” + ob "toward" + trudere "to thrust"
This image seems unobtrusive enough...
Believe it or not, it is a moving jigsaw puzzle!
Can you identify and move the pieces into their correct locations?
When it comes to new situations, do you prefer to be unobtrusive,
or would you rather be noticed? Why?

4 comments:

fabulous student said...

madison says the wood pecker banging on are stove pipe is not unobtrusive. and lions are to.

Ann Brucker said...

Great example, Madi!
I hope that avian organism becomes more unobtrusive when it gets dark so that you can get some sleep!

fabulous student said...

izaiah says
it dupends what kid of situation because if you were in lot of trouble you can be true or you can run and be unobtrusive so you wont get kot lol. once i wanted to stay at my gramas so i tride to be unobtrusive and prten to be sleping and wen my mom left i was still awake but wen my grama went to wake me up i fell aslep so ill get away. p.s. to get away for my grama lol.

fabulous student said...

Jaycee says...
Last night there were ants in my basement and were unobtrusive until Andrew found an ant crawling on the floor and picked it up and "it bit him" he said and then he found a bunch of them on the floor and I screamed really, really loud and ran away! I'll never forget the look on my face! :O (screaming face)