protrusive
Americanadjective
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projecting or protuberant; thrusting forward, upward, or outward.
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Archaic. pushing forward; having propulsive force.
adjective
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tending to project or jut outwards
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a less common word for obtrusive
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archaic causing propulsion
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of protrusive
1670–80; < Latin prōtrūs ( us ) (past participle of prōtrūdere to protrude ) + -ive
Example Sentences
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She interpreted the virus’s protrusive spikes with tufts of red tissue paper left over from Christmas, and filled up the corona’s hollow with sparkly pompoms and unshelled nuts.
From New York Times • May 4, 2020
The lips by this time were markedly large and protrusive; part of his daily discipline was tedious button-and-string exercises designed to promote hypertrophy of the orbicularis muscles.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 28, 2011
Radical increase of the lips’ protrusive range requires systematic exercise of the maxillary fasciae, such as the depressor septi, orbicularis oris, depressor anguli oris, depressor labii inferioris, and the buccinator, circumoral, and risorius groups.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 28, 2011
Havelock rather disliked her protrusive blue eyes, but he could not resist her New-Woman camaraderie.
From Time Magazine Archive
Compared with an anthropoid ape, man has a bigger and more upright forehead, a less protrusive face region, smaller cheek-bones and eyebrow ridges, and more uniform teeth.
From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by Thomson, J. Arthur
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