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obscene

  • adjective
  • ob·scene
  • əb-sēnʹ

Offensive to standards of decency or morality.

Other meanings

  1. Lewd or lustful.

  2. Disgusting or repulsive.

Related words

  • obsceneness
  • obscenometer

Word history

From Latin "obscēnus".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “obscene” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.