Englishobscene
adjective
1 obscene literature | obscene jokes:
pornographic, indecent, salacious, smutty, lewd, rude, dirty, filthy, vulgar, foul, coarse, crude, gross, vile, nasty, disgusting, offensive, shameless, immoral, improper, immodest, impure, indecorous, indelicate, unwholesome, scabrous, off colour, lubricious, risqué, ribald, bawdy, suggestive, titillating, racy, erotic, carnal, sensual, sexy, lascivious, lecherous, licentious, libidinous, goatish, degenerate, depraved, amoral, debauched, dissolute, prurient;
scatological, profane;
informal blue, porn, porno, X-rated, triple-X, XXX, raunchy, sick;
British, informal near the knuckle, fruity, saucy;
euphemistic adult;
rare ithyphallic, Fescennine, Cyprian.
▷antonyms pure, decent.
2 it was the most obscene crime he had ever encountered:
shocking, scandalous, vile, foul, atrocious, outrageous, heinous, wicked, evil, odious, abhorrent, abominable, disgusting, hideous, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, repellent, obnoxious, offensive, objectionable, loathsome, hateful, nauseating, sickening, awful, dreadful, terrible, frightful, ghastly;
archaic disgustful, loathly.
obscene Oxford Dictionary of English