0 not noticeable; seeming to fit in well with the things around: --
Make-up this season is unobtrusive and natural-looking.
1 not noticeable; seeming to belong: --
These sensors are unobtrusive, comfortable for the user to wear, and fast enough for real-time applications.
The need for unobtrusive care is essential because parents are usually healthy people coping with extremely difficult circumstances.
The form of the device is made to be as compact and unobtrusive as possible.
In a different application, a domestic service robot may simply want to stay unobtrusive while operating in its environment.
The aim is to produce something which is rhythmically monotonous and repetitive; a 'sustaining' background of brisk, cheerful but unobtrusive music.
Each interview was tape-recorded and semistructured with simultaneous, unobtrusive participant observation.
But when the unobtrusive measure is used a non-significant difference in the opposite direction emerges.
The work here is based on the transcription of video- or audio-taped material rather than unobtrusive observation.