1 connected with sex in a way that most people find offensive:
obscene gestures / language / books * an obscene phone call (= made by sb saying obscene things)
2 extremely large in size or amount in a way that most people find unacceptable and offensive:
He earns an obscene amount of money. * It's obscene to spend so much on food when millions are starving.
obscenely adverb:
to behave obscenely * obscenely fat / rich
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for obscene is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is obscene a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, obscene is tagged as adjective.
Does obscene appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — obscene appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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