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 Definitions of vulgar  [ˈvʌl gər]  

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Definition of 'vulgar' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (adj.) vulgar
characterized by ignorance of or lack of good breeding or taste:
vulgar ostentation.

2.  vulgar
indecent; obscene; lewd:
a vulgar gesture.

3.  vulgar
lacking in refinement; crude; coarse; boorish.

4.  vulgar
of, pertaining to, or constituting the ordinary people in a society.

5.  vulgar
spoken by, or being in the language spoken by, the people generally; vernacular.

6.  vulgar
current; popular; common:
vulgar beliefs.

7.  vulgar
lacking in distinction or aesthetic value; banal; ordinary.

Etymology:  (1350–1400; ME < L vulgāris=vulg(us) the general public +-āris -ar1)

Definition of 'vulgar' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (adj) coarse, common, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar
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"

2. (adj) common, plebeian, vulgar, unwashed
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"

3. (adj) common, vernacular, vulgar
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"

4. (adj) crude, earthy, gross, vulgar
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"


Definition of 'vulgar' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (adjective) vulgar
(of language, a joke, etc.) likely to cause offense; = crude
a vulgar expression; the vulgarity of his language


Definition of 'vulgar' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adj) vulgar
of or pertaining to the mass, or multitude, of people; common; general; ordinary; public; hence, in general use; vernacular

2. (adj) vulgar
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

3. (adj) vulgar
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

4. (noun) vulgar
one of the common people; a vulgar person

5. (noun) vulgar
the vernacular, or common language


Translation of 'vulgar' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: not generally socially acceptable, decent or polite; ill-mannered
Such behaviour is regarded as vulgar.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: vulgêr Arabic flag Arabic: فَظ، خَشِن Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: вулгарен
Brazilian flag Brazilian: vulgar Czech flag Czech: vulgární German flag German: vulgär
Danish flag Danish: plat; vulgær Greek flag Greek: χυδαίος, χοντροκομμένος ( Spanish flag Spanish: vulgar, ordinario
Estonian flag Estonian: labane Farsi flag Farsi: بی ادب؛ زننده Finnish flag Finnish: sivistymätön
French flag French: vulgaire Hebrew flag Hebrew: גַס Hindi flag Hindi: असंस्कृत
Croatian flag Croatian: prostački, vulgaran Hungarian flag Hungarian: közönséges, trágár, vulgá Indonesian flag Indonesian: tidak sopan, kasar
Icelandic flag Icelandic: grófur, óheflaður; lágkúr Italian flag Italian: volgare Japanese flag Japanese: 卑俗な
Korean flag Korean: (행동, 말씨, 의복 등이) 상스러운, 천한 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: vulgarus Latvian flag Latvian: vulgārs; piedauzīgs; pras
Malay flag Malay: tdk beradab Dutch flag Dutch: plat Norwegian flag Norwegian: vulgær, grov
Polish flag Polish: wulgarny Persian flag Persian: بی ادب؛ زننده Pashto flag Pashto: شډل، شاړ، بې ډبه، مبتذل:
Portuguese flag Portuguese: ordinário Romanian flag Romanian: vulgar Russian flag Russian: вульгарный
Slovak flag Slovak: hrubý, neotesaný, vulgárn Slovenian flag Slovenian: nespodoben, prostaški Serbian flag Serbian: vulgaran
Swedish flag Swedish: vulgär Thai flag Thai: หยาบคาย Turkish flag Turkish: kaba, terbiyesiz
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 粗俗的, 低級的 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: грубий, вульгарний Urdu flag Urdu: بازاري
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: thiếu tế nhị, tầm thường Chinese flag Chinese: 粗陋的,粗俗的,庸俗的

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