'Vulgar' definitions:
Definition of 'vulgar'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich" [syn: coarse, common, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar]
adjective
Of or associated with the great masses of people; "the common people in those days suffered greatly"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "his square plebeian nose"; "a vulgar and objectionable person"; "the unwashed masses" [syn: common, plebeian, vulgar, unwashed]
adjective
Being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species" [syn: common, vernacular, vulgar]
adjective
Definition of 'Vulgar'
From: GCIDE
- Vulgar \Vul"gar\, a. [L. vulgaris, from vulgus the multitude, the common people; of uncertain origin: cf. F. vulgaire. Cf. Divulge.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Of or pertaining to the mass, or multitude, of people; common; general; ordinary; public; hence, in general use; vernacular. "As common as any the most vulgar thing to sense. " -- Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Things vulgar, and well-weighed, scarce worth the praise. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- It might be more useful to the English reader . . . to write in our vulgar language. --Bp. Fell. [1913 Webster]
- The mechanical process of multiplying books had brought the New Testament in the vulgar tongue within the reach of every class. --Bancroft. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. "Like the vulgar sort of market men." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Men who have passed all their time in low and vulgar life. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- In reading an account of a battle, we follow the hero with our whole attention, but seldom reflect on the vulgar heaps of slaughter. --Rambler. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Hence, lacking cultivation or refinement; rustic; boorish; also, offensive to good taste or refined feelings; low; coarse; mean; base; as, vulgar men, minds, language, or manners. [1913 Webster]
- Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Vulgar fraction. (Arith.) See under Fraction. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Vulgar'
From: GCIDE
- Vulgar \Vul"gar\, n. [Cf. F. vulgaire.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. One of the common people; a vulgar person. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- These vile vulgars are extremely proud. --Chapman. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The vernacular, or common language. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'vulgar'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- average,
- barbarian,
- barbaric,
- barbarous,
- barnyard,
- base,
- baseborn,
- below the salt,
- blatant,
- blue,
- boorish,
- brazen,
- brazenfaced,
- broad,
- cacophonous,
- caddish,
- chintzy,
- clumsy,
- coarse,
- cockney,
- colloquial,
- colorful,
- common,
- commonplace,
- conversational,
- crass,
- crude,
- demeaning,
- dirty,
- disadvantaged,
- doggerel,
- Doric,
- dysphemistic,
- earthy,
- everyday,
- extravagant,
- filthy,
- flagrant,
- flaring,
- flash,
- flaunting,
- frank,
- garish,
- gauche,
- gaudy,
- general,
- glaring,
- gorgeous,
- graceless,
- gross,
- gutter,
- harsh,
- homely,
- homespun,
- household,
- humble,
- idiomatic,
- ignoble,
- ill-bred,
- improper,
- impure,
- in bad taste,
- in the shade,
- inappropriate,
- inconcinnate,
- inconcinnous,
- inconsiderate,
- incorrect,
- indecent,
- indecorous,
- indelicate,
- inelegant,
- infelicitous,
- inferior,
- infra dig,
- insensitive,
- junior,
- lascivious,
- less,
- lesser,
- lewd,
- licentious,
- loathsome,
- loud,
- loutish,
- louty,
- low,
- low-class,
- lowborn,
- lowbred,
- lower,
- lowly,
- lurid,
- lustful,
- mean,
- meretricious,
- minor,
- modest,
- nasty,
- naughty,
- nonclerical,
- obscene,
- obtrusive,
- off color,
- offensive,
- ordinary,
- ostentatious,
- outlandish,
- plain,
- plebeian,
- popular,
- pornographic,
- profane,
- rank,
- raunchy,
- raw,
- repulsive,
- revolting,
- ribald,
- risque,
- rough,
- rude,
- salacious,
- scatological,
- screaming,
- second rank,
- second string,
- secondary,
- sensational,
- servile,
- shabby-genteel,
- shameless,
- smutty,
- spectacular,
- spoken,
- sub,
- subaltern,
- subject,
- subordinate,
- subservient,
- tactless,
- tasteless,
- tawdry,
- third rank,
- third string,
- third-estate,
- unbecoming,
- unbeseeming,
- uncourtly,
- uncouth,
- uncultivated,
- uncultured,
- underprivileged,
- undignified,
- uneuphonious,
- unfelicitous,
- unfeminine,
- unfitting,
- ungenteel,
- ungentle,
- ungentlemanly,
- ungraceful,
- unladylike,
- unpolished,
- unrefined,
- unseemly,
- unsolicitous,
- unsuitable,
- untasteful,
- vernacular,
- vile,
- vulgate,
- wild
Words containing 'Vulgar'
- Vulgarism,
- Vulgarity,
- Vulgarization,
- Vulgarize,
- Vulgarized,
- Vulgarizing,
- Vulgarly,
- Vulgarness,
- vulgarizer,
- Arisarum vulgare,
- Astrocaryum vulgare,
- Echium vulgare,
- Faeniculum vulgare,
- Helianthemum vulgare,
- Hordeum vulgare,
- Ligustrum vulgare,
- Marrubium vulgare,
- Origanum vulgare,
- Scolopendrium vulgare,
- Sorghum vulgare,
- Tanacetum vulgare,
- Triticum vulgare,
- Vulgar fraction,
- cirsium vulgare,
- clinopodium vulgare,
- foeniculum vulgare,
- leucanthemum vulgare,
- polypodium vulgare,
- vulgar language,
- vulgar latin,
- foeniculum vulgare dulce,
- sorghum vulgare caudatum,
- sorghum vulgare rosburghii,
- sorghum vulgare technicum,
- non-U vulgar