| obscene | (adjective) suggestive of or tending to moral looseness | Synonyms: lewd, raunchy, salacious |
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| (adjective) designed to incite to indecency or lust | - |
| (adjective) offensive to the mind | Synonyms: abhorrent, detestable, repugnant, repulsive |
| obscenely | (adverb) in a lewd and obscene manner | Synonyms: lewdly |
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| (adverb) to an obscene degree | - |
| obscenity | (noun) an obscene act | - |
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| (noun) the trait of behaving in an obscene manner | Synonyms: bawdiness, lewdness, salaciousness, salacity |
| (noun) an offensive or indecent word or phrase | Synonyms: dirty word, filth, smut, vulgarism |
| obscurantism | (noun) a deliberate act intended to make something obscure | - |
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| (noun) a policy of opposition to enlightenment or the spread of knowledge | - |
| obscurantist | (noun) a person who is deliberately vague | - |
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| obscure | (adjective) difficult to find | Synonyms: hidden |
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| (adjective) marked by difficulty of style or expression | Synonyms: dark |
| (adjective) not drawing attention | Synonyms: unnoticeable |
| (adjective) not famous or acclaimed | Synonyms: unknown, unsung |
| (adjective) not clearly expressed or understood | Synonyms: vague |
| (adjective) remote and separate physically or socially | Synonyms: apart, isolated |
| (verb) make unintelligible or unclear | Synonyms: bedim, overcloud |
| (verb) make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing | Synonyms: blot out, hide, obliterate, veil |
| (verb) reduce a vowel to a neutral one, such as a schwa | - |
| (verb) make unclear, indistinct, or blurred | Synonyms: blur, confuse, obnubilate |
| (verb) make less visible or unclear | Synonyms: becloud, befog, cloud, fog, haze over, mist, obnubilate |
| obscurely | (adverb) in an obscure manner | - |
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| obscureness | (noun) the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand | Synonyms: abstruseness, obscurity, reconditeness |
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| (noun) the state of being humble and unimportant | Synonyms: humbleness, lowliness, unimportance |
| (noun) the state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination | Synonyms: obscurity |
| obscurity | (noun) the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand | Synonyms: abstruseness, obscureness, reconditeness |
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| (noun) an obscure and unimportant standing; not well known | - |
| (noun) the state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination | Synonyms: obscureness |