vulgar
Plural: vulgars
Adjective Satellite
- lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
- "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"
- "the vulgar display of the newly rich"
- of or associated with the great masses of people
- "a vulgar and objectionable person"
- being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
- "the vulgar tongue of the masses"
- "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species"
- conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
- "a vulgar gesture"
- "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited"
Adj
- Debased; uncouth; distasteful; obscene.
- Having to do with ordinary, common people.
- Common, usual; of the typical kind.
- Being a vulgar fraction.
Noun
- A common or ordinary person.
- A common, ordinary person.
- The common people.
- The language of a people, especially the commoners.
Adjective
- Lacking sophistication or refinement; crude.
Examples
- a truly vulgar showing of affection
- He preferred to play words known by the VULGAR, rather than obscure scientific terms.
- He refrained from using any VULGAR words, even when losing by a landslide in Scrabble.
- vulgar and highly distressing scenes
- vulgar language
- vulgar words
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English vulgare, from Latin vulgāris, from volgus, vulgus (“mob; common folk”), from Proto-Indo-European *wl̥k-. Compare Welsh gwala (“plenty, sufficiency”), Ancient Greek ἁλία (halía, “assembly”), εἰλέω (eiléō, “to compress”), Old Church Slavonic великъ (velikŭ, “great”).
Synonyms
coarse, common, crude, earthy, gross, plebeian, rough-cut, uncouth, unwashed, vernacular, crass, debased, ignoble, inappropriate, mean, obscene, offensive, ordinary, popular, profane, vernacular#Noun, vulgate#Noun
Scrabble Score: 10
vulgar: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordvulgar: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
vulgar: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary