PORNOGRAPHIC Synonyms: 135 Similar and Opposite Words

pornographic

adjective

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as in adult

dealing in or with explicitly sexual material opposition to a pornographic bookstore opening in the neighborhood

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as in obscene

depicting or referring to sexual matters in a way that is unacceptable in polite society the store kept all of its pornographic DVDs locked up, thus ensuring that they would be accessible only to adults

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Recent Examples of pornographic One student, in particular, was sent a pornographic deepfake of his upper school classmate on the communications app Discord, apparently in error. —

Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 23 Mar. 2026 Founded in 2016 by British father and son Guy and Tim Stokely, OnlyFans rose to fame by hosting pornographic material forbidden on most social networks. —

Bloomberg, Mercury News, 23 Mar. 2026 In Spiegel investigation, Fernandes alleges that her ex-husband created fake social media profiles in her name and used them to contact men to send them pornographic photos and videos. —

Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 21 Mar. 2026 The emails were originally unearthed during a sweeping internal affairs investigation, which revealed in 2015 that Miami Beach officers had exchanged hundreds of racist, sexist and pornographic messages via their city email accounts. —

Aaron Leibowitz, Miami Herald, 14 Mar. 2026 According to the criminal complaint, the victims told police that Meyers asked them to send nude photos or make pornographic videos. —

Ross Guidotti, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026 The employees also sent pornographic magazines with the husband’s name on them to a neighbor’s home and planned to break into the couple’s garage to install a GPS device on their car. —

Leah Willingham, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2026 Forty-five states have enacted laws specifically on deepfake pornographic images. —

Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 23 Feb. 2026 The Barry University law professor arrested this week had hundreds, and possibly thousands, of pornographic photos and videos of children on his hard drive, according to the affidavit for his arrest released Thursday. —

Steven Walker, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 Feb. 2026

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For many readers and critics, the perception was that Mansfield was almost writing children’s fiction, since most of her stories are deceptively easy to read, although her themes are entirely adult in both form and content.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Dec. 2025
Justin Vernon’s midwestern charm and pliable falsetto has always endeared him to indie-rock dads raised on Michael McDonald, but starting a family himself between Bon Iver projects turned this year’s Sable, Fable into a deep examination of the fatherly adult contemporary figure in popular music.

— Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025