a. | 1. | |
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; | |
2. | Foul; fifthy; disgusting. | |
3. | Inauspicious; ill-omened. |
Adj. | 1. | obscene - designed to incite to indecency or lust; "the dance often becomes flagrantly obscene"- Margaret Mead |
2. | obscene - 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" | |
3. | obscene - suggestive of or tending to moral looseness; "lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent gesture"; "obscene telephone calls"; "salacious limericks" |