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Wicked vs Obscene - What's the difference?

wicked | obscene | Related terms |

Wicked is a related term of obscene.


As adjectives the difference between wicked and obscene

is that wicked is evil or mischievous by nature or wicked can be having a wick while obscene is obscene.

As an adverb wicked

is (slang|new england|british) very, extremely.

As a noun wicked

is people who are wickedoxford dictionary [http://wwwoxfordadvancedlearnersdictionarycom/dictionary/wicked_2].

As a verb wicked

is (wick).

wicked

English

Etymology 1

1225-75 (etyl) wikked, wikke, an alteration of wicke, adjectival use of (etyl)

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Evil or mischievous by nature.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=6 citation , passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}
  • (slang)  Excellent; awesome; masterful; deeply satisfying.
    • Usage notes
    * Nouns to which "wicked" is often applied: witch, person, man, woman, angel, deed, act, pleasure, delight, game, way, night, word.
    Synonyms
    * (evil or mischievous) evil, immoral, malevolent, malicious, nefarious, twisted, villainous, See also * awesome, bad, cool, dope, excellent, far out, groovy, hot, rad, See also
    Derived terms
    * wickedly * wickedness * wicked tongue

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (slang, New England, British) Very, extremely.
    • The band we went to see the other night was wicked loud!
    Synonyms
    * hella, helluv (primarily Northern California slang )

    Noun

  • People who are wicked.Oxford dictionary [http://www.oxfordadvancedlearnersdictionary.com/dictionary/wicked_2].

    • Etymology 2

    See (wick)

    Verb

    (head)
  • (wick)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Having a wick.
    • a two-wicked lamp
  • (British, dialect, chiefly, Yorkshire) Infested with maggots.

    • References

    English degree adverbs English heteronyms English intensifiers

    obscene

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Offensive to current standards of decency or morality
  • Lewd or lustful
  • Disgusting or repulsive
  • Beyond all reason
  • Liable to deprave or corrupt

    • Usage notes

    * The comparative obscener and superlative obscenest, though formed by valid rules for English, are less common than more obscene' and ' most obscene .