raunchy; lecherous, lubricous, goatish, lustful, ruttish, libidinous, concupiscent, sexy, erotic, carnal, sensual, Archaic, lickerish; licentious, lascivious, prurient, Cyprian, wanton, loose, libertine, promiscuous, Paphian, unchaste; immoral, degenerate, dissolute, dissipated, debauched, rakish, profligate, depraved, perverted.
3. abominable, atrocious, aversive, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, repellent, off-putting; obnoxious, noisome, fulsome, offensive, disgusting, rank, objectionable, insufferable, intolerable; nauseating, nauseous, sickening, distasteful, unpalatable, unsavory, unappetizing, insipid; disagreeable, unpleasant, unlikable, Brit. Inf. beastly.
obscenity, n. 1. indecency, vulgarity, vulgarness, salaciousness, vileness, foulness, obsceneness; filthiness, nastiness, SI. raunchiness; lecherousness, lubricity, lustfulness, bawdiness, libidinousness, concupiscence, carnality, carnalness; licentiousness, lasciviousness, wantonness, looseness, promiscuousness; immorality, dissoluteness, dissipation, rakishness, shamelessness.
2. indelicacy, immodesty, impropriety, improperness, inappropriateness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, unacceptability, unseemliness, tawdriness; grossness, rankness, repulsiveness, repulsivity, offensiveness, suggestivity; abusiveness, scurrilousness, blackguardism, profaneness.
3. salacity, pornography, vulgarism, filth, dirt, smut; scurrility, ribaldry, billingsgate, profanity, double entendre, Archaic, bawdry; curse word, swearword, oath, dirty word, four-letter word, U.S. Inf. cuss.
obscurantism, n. mystification, evasion of clarity, confusion, complication, Inf. mumbo jumbo; vagueness, unclearness, unclarity, fuzziness, blurriness, obfuscation, obscurity; ambiguity, ambiguousness, equivocalness, amphibology, indefiniteness, incertitude; abstruseness, reconditeness, obscureness.
obscure, adj. 1. vague, unclear, indefinite, uncertain, doubtful, dubious; abstruse, recondite, arcane; ambiguous, equivocal, cryptic, enigmatic; unfathomable, impenetrable, incomprehensible, mysterious, perplexing, puzzling, confusing, confused.
2. inconspicuous, unnoticeable, insignificant, undistinguished; unknown, unheard of, unhonored, unsung, inglorious, nameless, unnoted, unrenowned; hidden, remote, retired, secluded, unnoticed, out-of-the-way.
3. faint, vague, imperceptible, indiscernible; undefined, indistinct, hazy, blurred, fuzzy, bleared, veiled.
4. dark, black, overcast, lightless, gloomy; murky, shadowy, somber, cloudy, dim, dusky, Literary, darkling, lowering, funereal; misty, foggy, smoky, filmy, starless, moonless, sunless, unilluminated, unlighted; tenebrous, Archaic, caliginous.
-v. 5. obfuscate, muddy, conceal, hide, disguise, veil, make abstruse; confuse, baffle, mystify, perplex, bewilder.
6. make dim, bedim, cloud, becloud, begloom, benight, fog, befog; darken, blacken, blur, dull, dim; overcast, overcloud, overshadow, shadow, mask, curtain, cloak, shroud; eclipse, adumbrate.
obscurity, n. 1. vagueness, indefiniteness, uncertainty, doubtfulness, dubiousness; abstruseness, reconditeness, profoundness; ambiguity, equivocation, obfuscation; incomprehensibility, impenetrableness, confusion.
2. inconspicuousness, unobtrusiveness, nonrecognition, namelessness, ingloriousness; insignificance, unimportance, nullity, paltriness, pettiness, worthlessness.
3. darkness, dimness, lightlessness; gloominess, murkiness, somberness, cloudiness, mistiness, fogginess, smokiness, filminess; starlessness, moonlessness, sunlessness; indistinctness, nebulousness, faintness, vagueness; haziness, blurredness, fuzziness.