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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. designed to incite to indecency or lust;
- Example: "the dance often becomes flagrantly obscene"-Margaret Mead

2. offensive to the mind;
- Example: "an abhorrent deed"
- Example: "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"
- Example: "morally repugnant customs"
- Example: "repulsive behavior"
- Example: "the most repulsive character in recent novels"
[syn: abhorrent, detestable, obscene, repugnant, repulsive]

3. suggestive of or tending to moral looseness;
- Example: "lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"
- Example: "an indecent gesture"
- Example: "obscene telephone calls"
- Example: "salacious limericks"
[syn: lewd, obscene, raunchy, salacious]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Obscene \Ob*scene"\, a. [L. obscenus, obscaenus, obscoenus, ill
   looking, filthy, obscene: cf. F. obsc['e]ne.]
   [1913 Webster]
   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; as, obscene
      language; obscene pictures.
      [1913 Webster]

            Words that were once chaste, by frequent use grew
            obscene and uncleanly.                --I. Watts.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Foul; fifthy; disgusting.
      [1913 Webster]

            A girdle foul with grease binds his obscene attire.
                                                  --Dryden
                                                  (Aeneid, vi.
                                                  417).
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   3. Inauspicious; ill-omened. [R.] [A Latinism]
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            At the cheerful light,
            The groaning ghosts and birds obscene take flight.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   Syn: Impure; immodest; indecent; unchaste; lewd.
        [1913 Webster] -- Ob*scene"ly, adv. --
        Ob*scene"ness, n.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

obscene
    adj 1: designed to incite to indecency or lust; "the dance often
           becomes flagrantly obscene"-Margaret Mead
    2: 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" [syn: abhorrent, detestable, obscene,
       repugnant, repulsive]
    3: suggestive of or tending to moral looseness; "lewd
       whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent gesture";
       "obscene telephone calls"; "salacious limericks" [syn:
       lewd, obscene, raunchy, salacious]