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vul·gar
 vulgar
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- pronunciation:
- vuhl
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- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective)
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition 1: |
lacking in taste, propriety, or refinement; coarse; crude.
A grand lady, she would never dream of entering the vulgar home of a peasant.Propping her bare feet on the dinner table is just one of her vulgar habits.That vulgar husband of hers does nothing but drink beer and belch.- synonyms:
- coarse, crass, crude, gross, tasteless, uncouth, uncultured, unrefined
- antonyms:
- elegant, gracious, polite, tasteful
- similar words:
- barbarous, base, bawdy, boorish, churlish, common, gauche, ill-bred, ill-mannered, improper, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, low, naughty, ribald, rude, rugged, scurrilous, unmannerly, unseemly
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| definition 2: |
indecent, obscene, or ostentatious.
She finds most of his jokes about women utterly vulgar.The red velvet walls and gold statues of cherubs were more vulgar than elegant.- synonyms:
- dirty, filthy, gross, indecent, lewd, obscene, ostentatious, profane, salacious, smutty
- antonyms:
- decent, inoffensive
- similar words:
- bawdy, blue, churlish, common, degenerate, immodest, immoral, improper, off-color, offensive, pretentious, prurient, racy, rank, raunchy, ribald, risqué, tawdry
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| definition 3: |
of or pertaining to the common masses of people, as opposed to an educated elite group.
He considered pop music vulgar.- synonyms:
- lowbrow, plebeian
- antonyms:
- genteel
- similar words:
- common, gross, ignoble, mob, proletarian, provincial
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| definition 4: |
spoken or expressed in the language of common people; vernacular.
Vulgar Latin rather than the classical Latin language became the basis of modern romance languages.- synonyms:
- vernacular
- similar words:
- colloquial
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| related words: |
barbarian, barbarous, bawdy, cheap, foul, ignoble, loud, nasty, outrageous, popular, raw, savage, sordid, tacky, tasteless, uncivilized |
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| derivations: |
vulgarly (adv.), vulgarness (n.) |
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