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Vulgar
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What's The Definition Of Vulgar?
[adj] conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "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"
[adj] being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species" [adj] of or associated with the great masses of people; "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" [adj] lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Vulgar: coarse | common | crude | earthy | gross | indecent | informal | lowborn | plebeian | uncouth | unrefined | unwashed | vernacular Related Terms | Find terms related to Vulgar: See Also | Vulgar In Webster's Dictionary \Vul"gar\, a. [L. vulgaris, from vulgus the multitude,
the common people; of uncertain origin: cf. F. vulgaire. Cf.
{Divulge}.]
1. Of or pertaining to the mass, or multitude, of people;
common; general; ordinary; public; hence, in general use;
vernacular. ``As common as any the most vulgar thing to
sense. '' -- Shak.
Things vulgar, and well-weighed, scarce worth the
praise. --Milton.
It might be more useful to the English reader . . .
to write in our vulgar language. --Bp. Fell.
The mechanical process of multiplying books had
brought the New Testament in the vulgar tongue
within the reach of every class. --Bancroft.
2. Belonging or relating to the common people, as
distinguished from the cultivated or educated; pertaining
to common life; plebeian; not select or distinguished;
hence, sometimes, of little or no value. ``Like the vulgar
sort of market men.'' --Shak.
Men who have passed all their time in low and vulgar
life. --Addison.
In reading an account of a battle, we follow the
hero with our whole attention, but seldom reflect on
the vulgar heaps of slaughter. --Rambler.
3. Hence, lacking cultivation or refinement; rustic; boorish;
also, offensive to good taste or refined feelings; low;
coarse; mean; base; as, vulgar men, minds, language, or
manners.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. --Shak.
{Vulgar fraction}. (Arith.) See under {Fraction}.
\Vul"gar\, n. [Cf. F. vulgaire.] 1. One of the common people; a vulgar person. [Obs.] These vile vulgars are extremely proud. --Chapman. 2. The vernacular, or common language. [Obs.] |
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