Obscene \Ob*scene"\, a. [L. obscenus, obscaenus, obscoenus, ill
looking, filthy, obscene: cf. F. obsc['e]ne.]
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1. Offensive to chastity or modesty; expressing or presenting
to the mind or view something which delicacy, purity, and
decency forbid to be exposed; impure; as, obscene
language; obscene pictures.
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Words that were once chaste, by frequent use grew
obscene and uncleanly. --I. Watts.
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2. Foul; fifthy; disgusting.
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A girdle foul with grease binds his obscene attire.
--Dryden
(Aeneid, vi.
417).
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3. Inauspicious; ill-omened. [R.] [A Latinism]
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At the cheerful light,
The groaning ghosts and birds obscene take flight.
--Dryden.
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Syn: Impure; immodest; indecent; unchaste; lewd.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
obscene
adj 1: designed to incite to indecency or lust; "the dance often
becomes flagrantly obscene"- Margaret Mead
2: offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene
massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs";
"repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in
recent novels" [syn: abhorrent, detestable, repugnant,
repulsive]
3: suggestive of or tending to moral looseness; "lewd
whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent gesture";
"obscene telephone calls"; "salacious limericks" [syn: lewd,
raunchy, salacious]
WordNet (r) 2.0
172 Moby Thesaurus words for "obscene":
Cyprian, Fescennine, Paphian, Rabelaisian, abhorrent, abominable,
abusive, amoral, animal, aphrodisiomaniacal, atrocious, awful,
barnyard, base, bawdy, beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt,
blasphemous, blue, broad, calumniatory, calumnious, carnal,
clitoromaniacal, coarse, comminatory, concupiscent, contemptible,
contumelious, crass, crude, crusty, cursing, damnatory, debauched,
degenerate, denunciatory, despicable, detestable, dirty,
disgusting, dissolute, distasteful, dysphemistic, earthy,
epithetic, erotic, eroticomaniacal, erotomaniacal, evil,
excommunicative, excommunicatory, execrable, execratory, fetid,
filthy, fleshly, forbidding, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken,
foul-tongued, foulmouthed, fulminatory, fulsome, gaudy, goatish,
gross, gynecomaniacal, hateful, heinous, hideous, horny, horrible,
hot, hysteromaniacal, ignoble, immodest, immoral, imprecatory,
improper, impure, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, inelegant,
insufferable, intolerable, ithyphallic, lascivious, lecherous,
lewd, libertine, libidinous, licentious, lickerish, loathsome,
loose, loud, lubricious, lurid, lustful, maledictory, malodorous,
mephitic, meretricious, miasmal, miasmic, nasty, nauseating,
nauseous, noisome, noxious, nymphomaniacal, objectionable,
obnoxious, odious, off color, offensive, outrageous, paw,
pornographic, priapic, profane, prurient, randy, rank, raunchy,
raw, rebarbative, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting,
ribald, rich, risque, rocky, rough, rude, ruttish, salacious,
satyric, scabrous, scatologic, scatological, scurrile, scurrilous,
sensual, sexual, sexy, shameful, shameless, shocking, sickening,
smoking-room, smutty, stinking, suggestive, sultry, unchaste,
unclean, unpalatable, unprintable, unrepeatable, vile,
vituperative, vulgar, wanton, warm, wicked
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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