obscenely

1. 1.

   to an obscene degree

   “this man is obscenely rich”
2. 2.

   in a lewd and obscene manner

   “he had seen how in their dances the white men and women held one another obscenely”

   Synonymslewdly

Questions about obscenely

What does obscenely mean?

obscenely means "to an obscene degree". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in obscenely?

obscenely has 4 syllables: ob-sce-ne-ly. The stress falls on "sce". In IPA it is /ɑbˈsinəli/.

What is another word for obscenely?

Close synonyms include lewdly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is obscenely a common word?

obscenely is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.