Vulgar

English

Adjective

Vulgar (comparative Vulgarer or more Vulgar, superlative Vulgarest or most Vulgar)

1. (classical sense) Having to do with ordinary, common people.
   • 1860, G. Syffarth, "A Remarkable Seal in Dr. Abbott's Museum at New York", Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis‎, age 265

     Further, the same sacred name in other monuments precedes the vulgar name of King Takellothis, the sixth of the XXII. Dyn., as we have seen.

2. (colloquial) Debased, uncouth, distasteful, obscene.
   • The construction worker made a vulgar suggestion to the girls walking down the street.

Synonyms

• (obscene): inappropriate, obscene, debased, uncouth
• (ordinary): common, ordinary, popular

Derived terms

• (obscene): vulgarity
• (ordinary): vulgar fraction, vulgate, Vulgate
• vulgar fraction

Adverbs for Vulgar

incredibly; strangely; habitually; unwontedly; grossly; boorishly; defiantly; crassly; strangely; purposely; arrantly; definitely; openly; conspicuously; shamefully; carelessly; unmistakably; singularly; surprisingly; intentionally; deliberately; flagrantly.

Thesaurus

Doric, average, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, barnyard, base, baseborn, below the salt, blatant, blue, boorish, brazen, brazenfaced, broad, cacophonous, caddish, chintzy, clumsy, coarse, cockney, colloquial, colorful, common, commonplace, conversational, crass, crude, demeaning, dirty, disadvantaged, doggerel, dysphemistic, earthy, everyday, extravagant, filthy, flagrant, flaring, flash, flaunting, frank, garish, gauche, gaudy, general, glaring, gorgeous, graceless, gross, gutter, harsh, homely, homespun, household, humble, idiomatic, ignoble, ill-bred, improper, impure, in bad taste, in the shade, inappropriate, inconcinnate, inconcinnous, inconsiderate, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, inelegant, infelicitous, inferior, infra dig, insensitive, junior, lascivious, less, lesser, lewd, licentious, loathsome, loud, loutish, louty, low, low-class, lowborn, lowbred, lower, lowly, lurid, lustful, mean, meretricious, minor, modest, nasty, naughty, nonclerical, obscene, obtrusive, off color, offensive, ordinary, ostentatious, outlandish, plain, plebeian, popular, pornographic, profane, rank, raunchy, raw, repulsive, revolting, ribald, risque, rough, rude, salacious, scatological, screaming, second rank, second string, secondary, sensational, servile, shabby-genteel, shameless, smutty, spectacular, spoken, sub, subaltern, subject, subordinate, subservient, tactless, tasteless, tawdry, third rank, third string, third-estate, unbecoming, unbeseeming, uncourtly, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, underprivileged, undignified, uneuphonious, unfelicitous, unfeminine, unfitting, ungenteel, ungentle, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, unladylike, unpolished, unrefined, unseemly, unsolicitous, unsuitable, untasteful, vernacular, vile, vulgate, wild

Etymology

Middle English, from Latin vulgāris, from volgus, vulgus 'mob; common folk', from Proto-Indo-European *u̯l̥k- (compare Welsh gwala 'plenty, sufficiency', Ancient Greek halia 'assembly', eilein 'to compress', Old Church Slavonic velkŭ 'great').

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈvʌl.ɡə/
• (US) IPA: /ˈvʌl.ɡɚ/

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Translations

obscene

Armenian: կոպիտ (hy) (kopit) Danish: vulgær (da), (dated) obskøn (da), uanstændig (da) Dutch: vulgair (nl), obsceen (nl), smakeloos (nl), ruw (nl), ordinair (nl) Esperanto: triviala (eo) Finnish: rivo (fi), vulgaari, alatyylinen (linguistics), sivistymätön (fi) German: vulgär, unfein, ungebildet, unanständig, ungehobelt, vulgärsprachlich Greek: χυδαίος (khideos) m., πρόστυχος (prostikhos) m., αγοραίος (agoreos) m. Hungarian: közönséges (hu), otromba (hu), durva (hu)

Persian: رکيک ، مبتذل (fa) (rakik, mobtazal) Polish: obsceniczny (pl) m. Romanian: obscen (ro) m. and n., vulgar (ro) m. and n. Russian: вульгарный (ru) (vul'gárnyj), непристойный (ru) (nepristójnyj), неприличный (ru) (neprilíčnyj), пошлый (ru) (póšlyj) Spanish: vulgar (es) Swedish: vulgär (sv)

having to do with common people

Danish: vulgær (da), simpel (da), ordinær (da), (dated) gemen (da) Dutch: volks (nl), gewoon (nl), gemeen (nl), ordinair (nl) Esperanto: vulgara (eo) Finnish: kansanomainen (fi), rahvaanomainen (fi) Galician: vulgar (gl) German: allgemein, ordinär, vulgär, vulgärsprachlich, Volks-, volkstümlich, gemein, gewöhnlich

Greek: κοινός (el) (kinos) m. Romanian: grosolan (ro) m. and n., comun (ro) m. and n., ordinar (ro) m. and n., ordinară f. Scottish Gaelic: gràisgeil (gd) Spanish: vulgar (es)

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Galician

Adjective

Vulgar m. and f. (plural vulgares)

1. common to the people, vulgar
2. ordinary, undistinguished
3. popular, commonly understood, as opposed to scientific or technical
4. simple, unintelligent

Synonyms

• (ordinary): prosaico
• (popular): común, popular

Antonyms

• (popular): científico, técnico

Etymology

From Latin vulgāris.

Related terms

• vulgaridade
• vulgarismo
• vulgo

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Romanian

Adjective

Vulgar ^{mn nom/acc forms}

1. vulgar

Synonyms

• grosolan
• ordinar
• comun

Etymology

Latin vulgaris

Declension

declension of Vulgar</small>

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	Vulgar	Vulgar	Vulgară	Vulgari	Vulgare	Vulgare
	definite	Vulgarul	Vulgarul	Vulgara	Vulgarii	Vulgarele	Vulgarele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	Vulgar	Vulgar	Vulgare	Vulgari	Vulgare	Vulgare
	definite	Vulgarului	Vulgarului	Vulgarei	Vulgarilor	Vulgarelor	Vulgarelor

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Spanish

Adjective

1. vulgar

Etymology

From Latin vulgāris.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /bulˈɡaɾ/, SAMPA: /bul"ga4/

Related terms

• vulgo
• vulgaridad