X-rated

adjective

X-rat·​ed ˈeks-ˈrā-təd 

1

: having a rating of X

broadly : relating to or characterized by explicit sexual material or activity

an X-rated book

2

: obscene, vulgar

an X-rated gesture

Synonyms

• adult
• mature
• pornographic
• porny

Examples of X-rated in a Sentence

for his comedy-club performances the stand-up comic's routines are definitely X-rated

the jerk should have known better than to tell an X-rated joke at a company function

Recent Examples on the Web

For the first seven years of the rating system (1969-1975), nearly half of the top films (33 of 70) were R- or X-rated. —Tom Brueggemann, IndieWire, 26 July 2024

What audiences see are silhouettes engaged in a shadow play of entwined hands and arched backs, sensual but not X-rated. —Rebecca Ritzel, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2024

Granted, none of these are X-rated, but one of my concerns is that the intensity of this online relationship has grown quite exponentially in a very short time and could very well lead to actual X-rated. —Amy Dickinson, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024

Keep the red boost light on with your right foot and the Riviera will eventually peak out at 105 mph, although the speedometer is X-rated above 85. —Don Sherman, Car and Driver, 8 Mar. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1970, in the meaning defined at sense 1