Dictionary Entry
obscene
obscene is a 7-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1a/
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.
- 2a/
Foul; fifthy; disgusting.
- 3a/
Inauspicious; ill-omened.
- 4adjective
suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
"lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"
"an indecent gesture"
- 5adjective
designed to incite to indecency or lust-Margaret Mead
"the dance often becomes flagrantly obscene"
- 6adjective
offensive to the mind
"an abhorrent deed"
"the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"
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