Definition of VULGAR

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”).

Scrabble Score: 10

vulgar: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
vulgar: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
vulgar: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 14

vulgar: valid Words With Friends Word