pornographic

English

Etymology

From pornography +‎ -ic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpɔː(ɹ)nəˈɡɹæfɪk/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -æfɪk

Adjective

pornographic (comparative more pornographic, superlative most pornographic)

1. Containing an explicit depiction of sexual activity.

   Synonyms: pornographical, X-rated; see also Thesaurus:pornographic

   • 1973 January 21, Vincent Canby, “What Are We To Think of ‘Deep Throat’?”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Trying to write honestly about pornographic films is like trying to tie one's shoe while walking: it's practically impossible without sacrificing stride and balance and a certain amount of ordinary dignity, the sort one uses with bank tellers who question a signature.

   • 2021 May 26, Harry Brewis, 33:33 from the start, in Vaccines and Autism: A Measured Response‎^[2], archived from the original on 30 July 2024:

     The intent to make the "MMR question" as serious as possible resulted in an almost pornographic obsession with suffering children.

Derived terms

• nonpornographic
• pornographically
• pornographico-devotional
• pseudopornographic
• quasipornographic
• semipornographic
• unpornographic

 

Translations

containing an explicit depiction of sexual activity

• Afrikaans: pornografies
• Albanian: pornografik (sq)
• Aragonese: pornografico
• Armenian: պոռնոգրաֆիական (poṙnografiakan)
• Asturian: pornográficu
• Azerbaijani: pornoqrafik
• Basque: pornografiko
• Belarusian: парнаграфі́чны (parnahrafíčny)
• Bulgarian: порнографски (bg) (pornografski), порнографи́чен (pornografíčen)
• Catalan: pornogràfic (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 色情的 (zh) (sèqíng de)

• Czech: pornografický
• Danish: pornografisk
• Dutch: pornografisch (nl)
• Esperanto: pornografa
• Estonian: pornograafiline
• Finnish: pornografinen (fi), siveetön (fi)
• French: pornographique (fr)
• Galician: pornográfico (gl)
• Georgian: პორნოგრაფიული (ṗornograpiuli)
• German: pornographisch (de)
• Greek: πορνογραφικός (el) (pornografikós)
• Hebrew: פּוֹרְנוֹגְרָפִי (pornografi)
• Hungarian: pornográf (hu), pornográfiai, trágár (hu), szeméremsértő (hu)
• Icelandic: klámfenginn
• Ido: pornografiala (io)
• Indonesian: pornografis (id)
• Interlingua: pornographic
• Irish: pornagrafach
• Italian: pornografico (it)
• Kazakh: порнографиялық (pornografiälyq)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: pornografîk (ku)

• Kyrgyz: порнографиялык (pornografiyalık)
• Latvian: pornogrāfisks
• Lithuanian: pornografinis
• Luxembourgish: pornographesch
• Macedonian: порногра́фски (pornográfski)
• Maltese: pornografiku
• Norman: pornographique (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pornografisk

  Nynorsk: pornografisk

• Occitan: pornografic
• Polish: pornograficzny (pl)
• Portuguese: pornográfico (pt)
• Romanian: pornografic (ro)

  Cyrillic: порнографик (pornografic)

• Russian: порнографи́ческий (ru) (pornografíčeskij)
• Sicilian: pornugràficu
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: порно̀графски

  Roman: pornògrafski (sh)

• Slovak: pornografický
• Slovene: pornográfski (sl)
• Spanish: pornográfico (es)
• Swedish: pornografisk (sv)
• Tagalog: pornograpiko
• Tajik: порнографӣ (tg) (pornografi)
• Thai: ลามก (th) (laa-mók)
• Turkish: porno (tr), pornografik (tr), müstehcen (tr), açık saçık (tr)
• Turkmen: pornografik
• Ukrainian: порнографі́чний (pornohrafíčnyj)
• Uzbek: pornografik (uz)
• Vietnamese: khiêu dâm (vi)
• Yiddish: פּאָרנאָגראַפֿיש (pornografish)