obscene

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   offensive or disgusting by accepted standards of decency

   The book was banned for its supposedly obscene content.

Simplified etymology

Obscene comes from Latin obscaenus, “ill-omened” or “abominable.” English could retain that sense into the 19th century, though its principal meaning from the beginning was “offensive” or “indecent.”

From Latin obscenus ('offensive, ill-omened, repulsive'), of uncertain origin, perhaps from ob- plus caenum ('filth').

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