'Vulgarism' definitions:
Definition of 'vulgarism'
(from WordNet)
noun
noun
The quality of lacking taste and refinement [syn: coarseness, commonness, grossness, vulgarity, vulgarism, raunch]
Definition of 'Vulgarism'
From: GCIDE
- Vulgarism \Vul"gar*ism\, n. [Cf. F. vulgarisme.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Grossness; rudeness; vulgarity. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A vulgar phrase or expression. [1913 Webster]
- A fastidious taste will find offense in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call "slang," which not a few of our writers seem to have affected. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'vulgarism'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- Babbittry,
- bad taste,
- barbarism,
- barbarousness,
- bombasticness,
- bourgeois taste,
- cacology,
- cacophony,
- camp,
- campiness,
- clumsiness,
- coarseness,
- colloquialism,
- corruption,
- crudeness,
- cumbrousness,
- dysphemism,
- Gothicism,
- gracelessness,
- grossness,
- harshness,
- heaviness,
- high camp,
- ill-balanced sentences,
- impropriety,
- impurity,
- inappropriateness,
- inconcinnity,
- incorrectness,
- indecency,
- indecorousness,
- indecorum,
- indelicacy,
- inelegance,
- inelegancy,
- infelicity,
- kitsch,
- lack of finish,
- lack of polish,
- leadenness,
- localism,
- low camp,
- philistinism,
- pompousness,
- ponderousness,
- poor diction,
- poor taste,
- pop,
- pop culture,
- roughness,
- rudeness,
- sesquipedalianism,
- sesquipedality,
- slang,
- slipshod construction,
- solecism,
- stiltedness,
- taboo word,
- tastelessness,
- turgidity,
- unaestheticism,
- unaestheticness,
- unbecomingness,
- uncouthness,
- uneuphoniousness,
- unfittingness,
- ungracefulness,
- unrefinement,
- unseemliness,
- unsuitability,
- unsuitableness,
- unwieldiness,
- vernacularism,
- vulgar taste,
- vulgarity,
- vulgarness
Words containing 'Vulgarism'
- Vulgar,
- 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