lewd, obscene, raunchy, salacious
(adjective) suggestive of or tending to moral looseness; “lewd pictures”; “an indecent gesture”; “obscene telephone calls”; “salacious limericks”
obscene
(adjective) designed to incite to indecency or lust; “the dance often becomes flagrantly obscene”-Margaret Mead
abhorrent, detestable, obscene, repugnant, repulsive
(adjective) 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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
obscene (comparative obscener or more obscene, superlative obscenest or most obscene) (see usage notes)
Offensive to current standards of decency or morality.
Synonym: Thesaurus:obscene
Antonyms: decent, moral, nonobscene
Lewd or lustful.
Synonym: Thesaurus:obscene
Antonyms: chaste, nonobscene, pure
Disgusting or repulsive.
Synonym: Thesaurus:obscene
Antonym: nonobscene
(by extension) Beyond all reason; excessive.
Synonym: Thesaurus:excessive
Antonym: Thesaurus:moderate
(law) Liable to corrupt or deprave.
Synonym: Thesaurus:obscene
Antonyms: decent, nonobscene
The comparative form obscener and superlative form obscenest, though formed by valid rules for English, are less common than more obscene and most obscene.
Source: Wiktionary
Ob*scene", a/ Etym: [L. obscenus, obscaenus, obscoenus, ill looking, filthy, obscene: cf. F. obscéne.]
1. 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. Words that were once chaste, by frequent use grew obscene and uncleanly. I. Watts.
2. Foul; fifthy; disgusting. A girdle foul with grease bobscene attire. Dryden.
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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 December 2024
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
