Part of Speech: Adjective
Definition:Â offensive to morality or decency; indecent; depraved
Source: Dictionary.com
Found in âInstructions on Not Giving Upâ by Ada Limon
â More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out
of the crabapple tree, more than the neighborâs
almost obscene display of cherry limbs shoving
their cotton candy-colored blossoms to the slate
sky of Spring rains, itâs the greening of the trees
that really gets to me.â line1/line2/line3/line4/line5/line6
The speaker is saying that more than all those things that he/she listed including the indecent display of the cherry limbs shoving their cotton candy-colored blossoms to the slate sky of Spring rains that may make them feel good, itâs the greening of the trees
that really gets to them; where he/she means its the results of whatever is done that makes them feel better than those things.