Obscene

Quick meaning: Obscene is an adjective meaning Offensive to standards of decency or morality.

Meaning

Offensive to standards of decency or morality.

More Meanings

1. Lewd or lustful.
2. Disgusting or repulsive.
3. (by extension) Beyond all reason; excessive.
4. (ambitransitive, rare) To act or speak in an obscene manner; to offend.
5. (chiefly British, criminal law) Liable to corrupt or deprave.

Example Sentences

What is obscene today may not be so tomorrow or what is obscene at one place may not be obscene at another place.

Shall I recount his intemperance, voluptuouſneſs, and obſcæne manner of living? or his impious, doubtful or wicked end? no, let them be buried with his aſhes.

Playes are the nurseries of vice, the bawd, / That thorow the senses steales our hearts abroad, / Tainting our eares with obscæne bawdery, / Lascivious words, and wanton ribaulry.

Neither do wee pleaſe them with their owne crimes, or obſcæne ſpectacles: whereas they celebrate both the guilt that there gods incurred who were men, and the fayned pleaſures of ſuch of them as were flat deuills.

Word Forms

• obscener
• obscenest
• obscenes
• obscening
• obscened

Synonyms for obscene

Depending on context, synonyms include adult, bawdy, cheeky, dirty, indecent, filthy.

Antonyms for obscene

Common opposites include chaste, decent, moral, pure, measured, mellow.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include offensive, repugnant, detestable, repulsive, abhorrent, indecent.

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