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 greatmasses 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"
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 goodtaste 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