The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
adj. Offensive to accepted standards of decency or modesty.
adj. Inciting lustful feelings; lewd.
adj. Repulsive; disgusting: "The way he writes about the disease that killed her is simply obscene” ( Michael Korda).
adj. So large in amount as to be objectionable or outrageous: "local merchants in nearby stores get hammered by stratospheric rents and obscene taxes” ( Joe Queenan).
adj. Offensive to current standards of decency or morality
adj. Lewd or lustful
adj. Disgusting or repulsive
adj. Beyond all reason
adj. Liable to deprave or corrupt
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Offensive to chastity or modesty; expressing or presenting to the mind or view something which delicacy, purity, and decency forbid to be exposed; impure
adj. Foul; fifthy; disgusting.
adj. Inauspicious; ill-omened.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Inauspicious; ill-omened.
Offensive to the senses; repulsive; disgusting; foul; filthy.
Offensive to modesty and decency; impure; unchaste; indecent: lewd: as, obscene actions or language; obscene pictures.
Synonyms Immodest, ribald, gross.
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
adj. designed to incite to indecency or lust
adj. suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
adj. offensive to the mind
Word Usage
"And just months later, a Chinese official accused the tech giant of spreading what he called obscene content via the Internet."