VULGAR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does vulgar mean?
• VULGAR (adjective)
The adjective VULGAR has 4 senses:
1. lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
2. of or associated with the great masses of people
3. being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
4. conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
Familiarity information: VULGAR used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• VULGAR (adjective)
Meaning:
Lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
Synonyms:
rough-cut; uncouth; vulgar; coarse; common
Context examples:
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
Similar:
unrefined ((used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth)
Meaning:
Of or associated with the great masses of people
Synonyms:
unwashed; vulgar; plebeian; common
Context examples:
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
Similar:
lowborn (of humble birth or origins)
Meaning:
Being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
Synonyms:
vernacular; vulgar; common
Context examples:
common parlance / a vernacular term / vernacular speakers / the vulgar tongue of the masses / the technical and vulgar names for an animal species
Similar:
informal (used of spoken and written language)
Meaning:
Conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
Synonyms:
earthy; crude; coarse; vulgar; gross
Context examples:
coarse language / a crude joke / crude behavior / an earthy sense of humor / a revoltingly gross expletive / a vulgar gesture / full of language so vulgar it should have been edited
Similar:
indecent (offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters)
