Thesaurus:obscene

Thesaurus

obscene

English

Adjective

Sense: suggestive or provocative of sexual impropriety

Synonyms

• adult    [⇒ thesaurus]
• bawdy
• blue    [⇒ thesaurus]
• cheeky    [⇒ thesaurus]
• dirty    [⇒ thesaurus]
• indecent
• filthy
• gross
• harlot (rare)
• ithyphallic
• lewd
• mucky
• naughty
• near the knuckle (UK)
• obscene
• off-colour (idiomatic)
• racy
• raunchy
• ribald
• ribaudred
• ribaudrous
• risqué
• rorty (UK)
• salacious
• saucy
• shocking
• sluttish
• slutlike
• slutty
• smutty
• spicy    [⇒ thesaurus]
• tartish
• tarty
• trampy
• vulgar

Antonyms

• chaste
• decent
• moral

Hyponyms

• hookerish
• pornographic    [⇒ thesaurus]
• promiscuous    [⇒ thesaurus]
• whorish
• whorelike
• whorey

Hypernyms

• exciting    [⇒ thesaurus]
• immoral    [⇒ thesaurus]
• impure    [⇒ thesaurus]
• sexual
• unreserved

Further reading

• “961. impurity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “obscene” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.