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Definitions for Vulgar

[1] characterized by ignorance of or lack of good breeding or taste: vulgar ostentation.
[2] indecent; obscene; lewd: a vulgar work; a vulgar gesture.
[3] crude; coarse; unrefined: a vulgar peasant.
[4] of, relating to, or constituting the ordinary people in a society: the vulgar masses.
[5] current; popular; common: a vulgar success; vulgar beliefs.
[6] spoken by, or being in the language spoken by, the people generally; vernacular: vulgar tongue.
[7] lacking in distinction, aesthetic value, or charm; banal; ordinary: a vulgar painting.
[8] Archaic . the common people.
[9] Obsolete . the vernacular.
[10] marked by lack of taste, culture, delicacy, manners, etc vulgar behaviour ; vulgar language
[11] (often capital; usually prenominal) denoting a form of a language, esp of Latin, current among common people, esp at a period when the formal language is archaic and not in general spoken use
[12] archaic of, relating to, or current among the great mass of common people, in contrast to the educated, cultured, or privileged; ordinary (as collective noun; preceded by the ) the vulgar

Words related to Vulgar

boorish, naughty, tawdry, profane, tasteless, ribald, off-color, disgusting, obscene, impolite, suggestive, indecent, crude, scatological, nasty, filthy, coarse, conversational, colloquial, vernacular

Words nearby Vulgar

vulcanization, vulcanize, vulcanized fiber, vulcanology, vulg., vulgar, vulgar fraction, vulgar latin, vulgarian, vulgaris, vulgarism

Origin of Vulgar

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin vulgāris, equivalent to vulg(us ) the general public + -āris -ar1

Other words from Vulgar

vul·gar·ly , adverb
vul·gar·ness , noun
un·vul·gar , adjective
un·vul·gar·ly , adverb
un·vul·gar·ness , noun

Word origin for Vulgar

C14: from Latin vulgāris belonging to the multitude, from vulgus the common people

Synonyms for Vulgar

boorish, coarse, crude, disgusting, filthy, impolite, indecent, nasty, naughty, obscene, off-color, profane, ribald, scatological, suggestive, tasteless, tawdry, X-rated, base, blue, cheap, common, contemptible, dirty, dishonorable, fractious, gross, hard-core, ignoble, improper, indecorous, indelicate, inferior, low, malicious, odious, raw, repulsive, risqué, rough, slippery, smutty, sneaking, soft-core, sordid, uncouth, unmannerly, unrefined, unworthy, villainous