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

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.
2. a/. Foul; fifthy; disgusting.
3. a/. Inauspicious; ill-omened.
4. adjective. suggestive of or tending to moral looseness

   "lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"

   "an indecent gesture"

   Synonyms: lewd, raunchy, salacious

5. adjective. designed to incite to indecency or lust-Margaret Mead

   "the dance often becomes flagrantly obscene"

6. adjective. offensive to the mind

   "an abhorrent deed"

   "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"

   Synonyms: abhorrent, detestable, repugnant, repulsive

Synonyms

lewd, raunchy, salacious, abhorrent, detestable, repugnant, repulsive

Common word forms

obscener, obscenely, obscenest, obsceneness

Words from these letters

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