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vulgar

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As an adjective, vulgar means debased, uncouth, distasteful, obscene. As a noun, it means a common, ordinary person.

Meanings of vulgar

11 meanings

Debased, uncouth, distasteful, obscene.
“vulgar language”
“vulgar words”
classical senseHaving to do with ordinary, common people.
especially taxonomyCommon, usual; of the typical kind.
“vulgar bush brown (Bicyclus vulgaris)”
mathBeing a vulgar fraction.
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”
Similar: coarse, common, rough-cut, uncouth
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”
Similar: common, plebeian, unwashed
Being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
“common parlance”
“a vernacular term”
“vernacular speakers”
Similar: common, vernacular
Conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
“coarse language”
“a crude joke”
“crude behavior”
Similar: crude, earthy, gross