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 Professor Glen-Peter Ahlers, 71, was arrested in February after at least hundreds of pornographic photos and videos of children were found on his hard drive. —

Silas Morgan, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 May 2026 The illicit chatbots allegedly produced pornographic images. —

Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026 Pamela Martin, 44, and her boyfriend Christopher O’Kane, 41, both pleaded guilty in March to three counts of making an indecent image of a child, two counts of distributing an indecent image of a child, possession of an extreme pornographic image and publishing an obscene article. —

Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 28 Apr. 2026 Swift’s likeness has been used without permission in numerous AI fakes, including by Meta’s AI chatbots and in pornographic images that have circulated on the internet. —

Todd Spangler, Variety, 27 Apr. 2026 This material included thousands of pornographic deepfakes that Kamnik had generated using AI tools. —

Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 9 Apr. 2026 Police are investigating reports that Lake Zurich High School students used artificial intelligence to generate pornographic images of classmates, district officials said. —

Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026 More than 100 students and parents from Lancaster Country Day School were in court to hear victims describe the shock of having to identify their own faces in pornographic photos to detectives. —

CBS News, 26 Mar. 2026 Also Thursday, Brussels accused four of the world's biggest pornographic websites, Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX and XVideos, of failing to protect children from adult content on their websites, following an investigation opened last year. —

ABC News, 26 Mar. 2026

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It is estimated that, based on measures of blood glucose, lipids, and other parameters, less than 12% of the adult American population can even be said to metabolically healthy.

— Christopher Duggan, STAT, 27 Mar. 2026
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