ob·scene /ɑbˈsin, əb-/
(a.)淫穢的,猥褻的
Ob·scene a.
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.
Words that were once chaste, by frequent use grew obscene and uncleanly. --I. Watts.
2. Foul; fifthy; disgusting.
A girdle foul with grease binds his obscene attire. --Dryden (Aeneid, vi. 417).
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.
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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]