Pornography

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Sexually explicit pictures, writing, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal.
  • n. The presentation or production of this material.
  • n. Lurid or sensational material: "Recent novels about the Holocaust have kept Hitler well offstage [so as] to avoid the ... pornography of the era” ( Morris Dickstein).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The graphic, detailed, often gratuitous depiction of something.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies.
  • n. A treatise on prostitutes, or prostitution.
  • n. obscene pictures, writings, drawings, motion pictures, videos, or the like intended primarily to cause sexual arousal and having little or no artistic merit; also, the content of such materials.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A description of or treatise on prostitutes or prostitution; hence, obscene writing.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Cross Reference
    hardcore    softcore   
    Hyponym
    Form
    pornographic    porny    porn    pornographically    porn star   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Unknown
    Erotica   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    sodomy    prostitution    extortion    rape    molestation