- 1. a/ Offensive to chastity or modesty; expressing of presenting to the mind or view something which delicacy, purity, and decency forbid to be exposed; impure; as, obscene language; obscene pictures. Source: opted
- 2. a/ Foul; fifthy; disgusting. Source: opted
- 3. a/ Inauspicious; ill-omened. Source: opted
- 4. adj. designed to incite to indecency or lust Source: wordnet
- 5. adj. offensive to the mind Source: wordnet
- 6. adj. suggestive of or tending to moral looseness Source: wordnet
- 7. 1. Offensive to chastity or modesty; expressing of presenting to the mind or view something which delicacy, purity, and decency forbid to be exposed; impure; as, obscene language; obscene pictures. Words that were once chaste, by frequent use grew obscene and uncleanly. I. Watts. 2. Foul; fifthy; disgusting. A girdle foul with grease bobscene attire. Dryden. 3. Inauspicious; ill-omened. [R.] [A Latinism] At the cheerful light, The groaning ghosts and birds obscene take flight. Dryden. Syn. -- Impure; immodest; indecent; unchaste; lewd. -- Ob*scene"ly, adv. -- Ob*scene"ness, n. Source: webster
- 8. j:100 s. designed to incite to indecency or lust Source: ecdict
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