English Dictionary

obscene

IPA（発音記号）

/əbˈsiːn/

形容詞

広義 イギリス英語

Offensive to standards of decency or morality. / Lewd or lustful. / Disgusting or repulsive. / (by extension) Beyond all reason; excessive. / (chiefly Britain, criminal law) Liable to corrupt or deprave.

日本語の意味

道徳や品位の基準に冒とくする、またはこれに反する / 下品な、わいせつな、好色な / 嫌悪感を引き起こす、忌まわしい / 常識を超えた、度を超している、行き過ぎた / （主に英国の刑法で）堕落や腐敗を招く恐れがある

The artist's obscene mural sparked a heated debate about public decency.

その芸術家のわいせつな壁画は公共の品位をめぐる激しい議論を巻き起こした。

意味（1）

Offensive to standards of decency or morality.

… I did incounter that obſeene and moſt prepoſterous euent that draweth frõ my ſnowhite pen the ebon coloured Incke, which here thou vieweſt, beholdeſt, ſuruayeſt, or ſeeſt. … There did I ſee that low ſpirited Swaine, … hight Coſtard, (Clow[ne]. O mee) ſorted and conſorted contrary to thy eſtabliſhed proclaymed Edict and continent Cannon; Which with, o with, but with this I paſſion to ſay wherewith: / Clo[wne]. With a Wench.

意味（2）

Lewd or lustful.

Playes are the nurseries of vice, the bawd, / That thorow the senses steales our hearts abroad, / Tainting our eares with obscæne bawdery, / Lascivious words, and wanton ribaulry.

意味（3）

Disgusting or repulsive.

Scrooge listened to this dialogue in horror. As they sat grouped about their spoil, in the scanty light afforded by the old man's lamp, he viewed them with a detestation and disgust, which could hardly have been greater, though they had been obscene demons, marketing the corpse itself.

意味（4）

(by extension) Beyond all reason; excessive.

Yossarian went along in Milo Minderbinder's speeding M & M staff car to police headquarters to meet a swarthy, untidy police commissioner with a narrow black mustache and unbuttoned tunic who was fiddling with a stout woman with warts and two chins when they entered his office and who greeted Milo with warm surprise and bowed and scraped in obscene servility as though Milo were some elegant marquis.

意味（5）

(chiefly Britain, criminal law) Liable to corrupt or deprave.

For the purposes of this Act an article shall be deemed to be obscene if its effect or (where the article comprises two or more distinct items) the effect of any one of its items is, if taken as a whole, such as to tend to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely, having regard to all relevant circumstances, to read, see or hear the matter contained or embodied in it.

obscener （ comparative ）

more obscene （ comparative ）

obscenest （ superlative ）

most obscene （ superlative ）