obscene
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- designed to incite to indecency or lust; -Margaret Mead
- "the dance often becomes flagrantly obscene"
- offensive to the mind
- "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"
- suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
- "obscene telephone calls"
Adj
- Offensive to standards of decency or morality.
- Lewd or lustful.
- Disgusting or repulsive.
- Beyond all reason; excessive.
- Liable to corrupt or deprave.
Verb
- To act or speak in an obscene manner; to offend.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle French obscene (modern French obscène (“indecent, obscene”)), and from its etymon Latin obscēnus, obscaenus (“inauspicious; ominous; disgusting, filthy; offensive, repulsive; indecent, lewd, obscene”). The further etymology is uncertain, but may be from ob- (prefix meaning ‘towards’) + caenum (“dirt, filth; mire, mud”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱweyn- (“to make dirty, soil; filth; mud”)) or scaevus (“left, on the left side; clumsy; (figurative) unlucky”) (from Proto-Indo-European *skeh₂iwo-).
Synonyms
abhorrent, adult, bawdy, blue, cheeky, detestable, dirty, excessive, extravagant, extreme, filthy, gross, harlot, immoderate, indecent, intemperate, ithyphallic, lavish, lewd, mucky, naughty, near the knuckle, nimious, obscene, off-colour, overmuch, overweening, prodigal, racy, raunchy, repugnant, repulsive, ribald, ribaudred, ribaudrous, risqué, rorty, salacious, saucy, shocking, slutlike, sluttish, slutty, smutty, spicy, tartish, tarty, trampy, undue, unmeasured, unreasonable, unrestrained, vulgar, wanton
Scrabble Score: 11
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