Vulgar

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Crudely indecent.
  • adj. Deficient in taste, delicacy, or refinement.
  • adj. Marked by a lack of good breeding; boorish. See Synonyms at common.
  • adj. Offensively excessive in self-display or expenditure; ostentatious: the huge vulgar houses and cars of the newly rich.
  • adj. Spoken by or expressed in language spoken by the common people; vernacular: the technical and vulgar names for an animal species.
  • adj. Of or associated with the great masses of people; common.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Debased, uncouth, distasteful, obscene.
  • adj. Having to do with ordinary, common people.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of or pertaining to the mass, or multitude, of people; common; general; ordinary; public; hence, in general use; vernacular.
  • adj. Belonging or relating to the common people, as distinguished from the cultivated or educated; pertaining to common life; plebeian; not select or distinguished; hence, sometimes, of little or no value.
  • adj. Hence, lacking cultivation or refinement; rustic; boorish; also, offensive to good taste or refined feelings; low; coarse; mean; base.
  • n. One of the common people; a vulgar person.
  • n. The vernacular, or common language.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of or pertaining to the common people; suited to or practised among the multitude; plebeian: as, vulgar life; vulgar sports.
  • Common; in general use; customary; usual; ordinary.
  • Hence, national; vernacular: as, the vulgar tongue; the vulgar version of the Scriptures; in zoology and botany, specifically, vernacular or trivial, as opposed to scientific or technical, in the names or naming of plants and animals. See pseudonym, 2.
  • Pertaining or belonging to the lower or less refined class of people: unrefined; hence, coarse; offensive to good taste; rude; boorish; low; mean; base: as, vulgar men, language, minds, or manners.
  • Synonyms and Ordinary, etc. See common.
  • Rustic, low-bred.
  • n. A vulgar person; one of the common people: used only in the plural.
  • n. The vernacular tongue or common language of a country.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
  • adj. being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
  • adj. of or associated with the great masses of people
  • adj. lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
  • Equivalent
    indecent    informal    lowborn    unrefined   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    common    general    ordinary    public    vernacular    plebeian    rustic    boorish    low    coarse   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    bulger   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    foolish    coarse    mere    selfish    childish    gross    idle    vile