Vulgar

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  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Crudely indecent.
  • adjective. Deficient in taste, consideration, or refinement.
  • adjective. Given to crudity or tastelessness, as in one's behavior.
  • adjective. Offensively excessive in self-display or expenditure; ostentatious.
  • adjective. Spoken by or expressed in language spoken by the common people; vernacular.
  • adjective. Of or associated with the great masses of people; common.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of or pertaining to the common people; suited to or practised among the multitude; plebeian: as, vulgar life; vulgar sports.
  • Common; in general use; customary; usual; ordinary.
  • Hence, national; vernacular: as, the vulgar tongue; the vulgar version of the Scriptures; in zoology and botany, specifically, vernacular or trivial, as opposed to scientific or technical, in the names or naming of plants and animals. See pseudonym, 2.
  • Pertaining or belonging to the lower or less refined class of people: unrefined; hence, coarse; offensive to good taste; rude; boorish; low; mean; base: as, vulgar men, language, minds, or manners.
  • Synonyms and Ordinary, etc. See common.
  • Rustic, low-bred.
  • noun. A vulgar person; one of the common people: used only in the plural.
  • noun. The vernacular tongue or common language of a country.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One of the common people; a vulgar person.
  • noun. The vernacular, or common language.
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to the mass, or multitude, of people; common; general; ordinary; public; hence, in general use; vernacular.
  • adjective. 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.
  • adjective. Hence, lacking cultivation or refinement; rustic; boorish; also, offensive to good taste or refined feelings; low; coarse; mean; base.
  • adjective. See under Fraction.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Debased, uncouth, distasteful, obscene.
  • adjective. Having to do with ordinary, common people.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
  • adjective. being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
  • adjective. of or associated with the great masses of people
  • adjective. lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
  • Word Usage
    "And it was he that might rightly say, _Veni, vidi, vici_; which to _anatomise_ in the vulgar, (_O base and obscure vulgar_!) _Videlicet_, he came, saw, and overcame ..."
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