Word Meanings - FOUR - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One more than three; twice two. (more info) fiwar, D. & G. vier, OHG. fior, Icel. fj, Sw. fyra, Dan. fire, Goth. fidw, Russ. chetuire, chetvero, W. pedwar, L. quatuor, Gr. catur. Farthing, Firkin, Forty, Cater four, Quater-cousin, Quatuor, Quire of
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- INDELICATE
Not delicate; wanting delicacy; offensive to good manners, or to purity of mind; coarse; rude; as, an indelicate word or suggestion; indelicate behavior. Macaulay. -- In*del"i*cate*ly, adv. Syn. -- Indecorous; unbecoming; unseemly; rude; coarse; - IMMODESTLY
In an immodest manner. - FOUL-MOUTHED
Using language scurrilous, opprobrious, obscene, or profane; abusive. So foul-mouthed a witness never appeared in any cause. Addison. - DISGUSTFUL
Provoking disgust; offensive to the taste; exciting aversion; disgusting. That horrible and disgustful situation. Burke. - INDECENT
Not decent; unfit to be seen or heard; offensive to modesty and delicacy; as, indecent language. Cowper. Syn. -- Unbecoming; indecorous; indelicate; unseemly; immodest; gross; shameful; impure; improper; obscene; filthy. - IMPURE
Not purified according to the ceremonial law of Moses; unclean. (more info) 1. Not pure; not clean; dirty; foul; filthy; containing something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated; as, impure water - IMMODESTY
Want of modesty, delicacy, or decent reserve; indecency. "A piece of immodesty." Pope. - IMMODEST
1. Not limited to due bounds; immoderate. 2. Not modest; wanting in the reserve or restraint which decorum and decency require; indecent; indelicate; obscene; lewd; as, immodest persons, behavior, words, pictures, etc. Immodest deeds you hinder - DISGUST
To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; -- often with at, with, or by. To disgust him with the world and its vanities. Prescott. Ærius is expressly - DISGUSTFULNESS
The state of being disgustful. - OBSCENE
1. Offensive to chastity or modesty; expressing of presenting to the mind or view something which delicacy, purity, and decency forbid to be exposed; impure; as, obscene language; obscene pictures. Words that were once chaste, by frequent use grew - IMPURELY
In an impure manner. - INDECENTLY
In an indecent manner. - DISGUSTING
That causes disgust; sickening; offensive; revolting. -- Dis*gust"ing*ly, adv. - IMPURENESS
The quality or condition of being impure; impurity. Milton. - FILTHY
Defiled with filth, whether material or moral; nasty; dirty; polluted; foul; impure; obscene. "In the filthy-mantled pool." Shak. He which is filthy let him be filthy still. Rev. xxii. 11. Syn. -- Nasty; foul; dirty; squalid; unclean; sluttish;