vulgar
vul·gar
adjective
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”
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”
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”
Origin
From Middle English vulgare, from Latin vulgāris, from volgus, vulgus (“mob; common folk”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH-. Compare Welsh gwala (“plenty, sufficiency”), Ancient Greek ἁλία (halía, “assembly”), εἰλέω (eiléō, “to compress”), Old Church Slavonic великъ (velikŭ, “great”).
Phrases
- Vulgar Era
- vulgar fraction
- Vulgar Latin
- vulgar Marxism
Related words
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