Vulgar

Definitions: Vulgar

Vulgar

Adjective

1. 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. 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"; "a vulgar and objectionable person"; "the unwashed masses".

3. 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. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "vulgar" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Vulgar

Commonalty

Peasant, countryman, boor, carle, churl; villain, villein; terrae filius; serf, kern, tyke, tike, chuff, ryot, fellah; longshoreman; swain, clown, hind; clod, clodhopper; hobnail, yokel, bog-trotter, bumpkin; plowman, plowboy; rustic, hayseed, lunkhead, chaw-bacon, tiller of the soil; hewers of wood and drawers of water, groundling; gaffer, loon, put, cub, Tony Lumpkin, looby, rube, lout, underling; gamin; rough; pot-wallopper, slubberdegullion; vulgar fellow, low fellow; cad, curmudgeon.

Noun: commonalty, democracy; obscurity; low condition, low life, low society, low company; bourgeoisie; mass of the people, mass of society; Brown Jones and Robinson; lower classes, humbler classes, humbler orders; vulgar herd, common herd; rank and file, hoc genus omne; the many, the general,the crowd, the people, the populace, the multitude, the million, the masses, the mobility, the peasantry; king Mob; proletariat; fruges consumere nati, demos, hoi polloi, great unwashed; man in the street.

Adjective: ignoble, common, mean, low, base, vile, sorry, scrubby, beggarly; below par; no great shakes; (unimportant); homely, homespun; vulgar, low-minded; snobbish.

Discourtesy

Adjective: discourteous, uncourteous; uncourtly; ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-behaved, ill-conditioned; unbred; unmannerly, unmannered; impolite, unpolite; unpolished, uncivilized, ungenteel; ungentleman-like, ungentlemanly; unladylike; blackguard; vulgar; dedecorous; foul-mouthed foul-spoken; abusive.

Language

Noun: language; phraseology; speech; tongue, lingo, vernacular; mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue; household words; King's English, Queen's English; dialect.

Neologism

Vulgar language, obscene language, obscenity, vulgarity.

Vulgarity

Verb: be vulgar; Adjective: misbehave; talk shop, smell of the shop.

Adjective: in bad taste vulgar, unrefined.

Crosswords: Vulgar

Albanian (banal, coarse, common, gross, low, low-lived, low-minded, raffish, ribald, tawdry, vulgar, vulgarian), Portuguese (accepted, artless, banal, blanket, coarse, common, commonplace, demotic, dismal, earthy, everyday, everything, got drunk, gross, hackneycarriage, hacksaw, humdrum, inelaborate, low, low-necked, mediocre, ordinary, pedestrian crosswalk, penny-a-liner, platitudinous, Plato, prosaic, quotidian, ready made, soulless, trite, trivial, undistinguished, uninspired, unladylike, unoriginal, usual, vulgar, vulgarian), Romanian (base, broad, churlish, coarse, common, gross, large, low, low-lived, unrefined, vile, vulgar, vulgarly), Spanish (commonplace, crude, gaudy, humdrum, loud, mundane, ordinary, ornery, pedestrian, tacky, unladylike, vernacular, vulgar, vulgarian), Swedish (gross).

The vulgar fictions of a demented Irishman. (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

That would be vulgar. (Score; writing credit: Jerry Douglas)

Ohhhh, so vulgar! Did Billy let you talk to him like this? (Scream 2; writing credit: Kevin Williamson)

Don't be vulgar, Jane. (The Lady Eve; writing credit: Monckton Hoffe; Preston Sturges)

I am a vulgar man! (Amadeus; writing credit: Peter Shaffer;)

The Vulgar Yachtsmen (1926)

Vulgar (2000)

Pantera - Vulgar Video (1993)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (reference)

• Diccionario cubano de habla popular y vulgar (reference)

• Married Love a Vulgar Entertainment (reference)

• Marxism and Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: A Defense of Vulgar Marxism (reference)

• Tales from the Vulgar Unicorn (Thieves' World, Book 2) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Pantera: 3 - Vulgar Videos from Hell (reference)

• Vulgar (reference)

• Vulgar (Unrated Edition) (reference)

• Pantera: Vulgar Video (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Vulgar Display of Power [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

• Perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own. (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Mother Goose and Grimm. You're a sick, disgusting, vulgar little dog and I want you to sit somewhere else / Mike Peters.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

There, not to be vulgar, was distinction, and merit.

He ridiculed all the names which he saw in politics or in power, finding them low and vulgar.

The learned among them confess the absurdity of this doctrine, but the practice still continues, in compliance to the vulgar.

The grandeur of Thebes was a vulgar grandeur.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Civil Liberties

Panama

The board monitors radio transmissions and has the authority to fine stations that violate norms regarding vulgar, profane, or obscene language. (references)

Minorities

Poland

In March several thousand students, journalists, and politicians removed vulgar and racist slogans from walls in the city of Lodz, a repeat of their efforts in 2000. The small Ukrainian and Belarussian minorities occasionally experienced petty harassment and discrimination. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "vulgar": become vulgar ♦ Common or Vulgar ♦ in bad taste vulgar ♦ in the vulgar tongue ♦ latin vulgar ♦ the vulgar ♦ the vulgar era ♦ the vulgar herd ♦ vulgar error ♦ vulgar expression ♦ vulgar fellow ♦ vulgar fraction ♦ vulgar herd ♦ vulgar language ♦ Vulgar Latin ♦ vulgar person ♦ vulgar tongue. Additional references.

Albanian

vulgar (banal, coarse, common, gross, low, low-lived, low-minded, raffish, ribald, tawdry, vulgarian), popullor (demotic, folk, national, pop, popular, vogue, well known), i zakonshëm (accustomed, common, common or garden, commonplace, consuetudinary, current, customary, daily, day to day, everyday, familiar, general, habitual, homely, mundane, natural, normal, ordinary, ready made, regular, routine, second best, standard, usual, wonted, workaday), i ulët (base, contemptible, dark, deep, down, gentle, give away, humble, ignoble, infamous, low, low down, low lying, lowly, mean, modest, nasty, nefarious, petty, primary, rascally, scrubby, scurvy, shoddy, subdued, vile, villainous), i rëndomtë (banal, base, coarse, common, commonplace, copybook, corny, everyday, habitual, hackneyed, homely, mundane, ordinary, plain, platitudinous, prose, prosy, second rate, substandard, trite). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فاحش (bawdy, dirty, filthy, obscene, ribald, shameless), ‏مألوف (accustomed, beaten, commonplace, conventional, customary, familiar, frequent, habitual, homely, household, ordinary, orthodox, popular, regular, usual), ‏مبتذل (banal, common, commonplace, conventional, corny, everyday, fade, fading, hack, hackneyed, outworn, overused, pedestrian, platitudinous, plebeian, prosaic, prose, routine, slipshod, stale, stereotyped, tacky, threadbare, tired, trite, trivial, vapid, well worn, workaday, worn out), ‏سوقي (common, logistic, logistical, plebeian, scurrilous), ‏عامي (base, colloquial, informal, plebeian, slang, slangy, vernacular, yearly), ‏خشن (boorish, bristly, coarse, crude, gross, gruff, ill mannered, impolite, indelicate, jagged, mannerless, plebeian, rasping, raucous, rough, roughen, rowdy, rude, rugged, rustic, sand, scabrous, scratchy, stiff, surly, tough, toughen, uncivil, uncouth), ‏شعبي (bronchial, classless, communal, demotic, folk, pop, popular, public), ‏بذيء (dirty, filthy, improper, impure, indecent, nasty, naughty, ribald, scurrilous, shameless, smutty). (various references)

Bulgarian 

вулгарен (caddish, coarse, common, doggish, gross, gutter, loud, low, low-minded, raffish, raw, scurrilous, underbred, unedifying), народен (demotic, folk, national, popular, public, vernacular), местен (aboriginal, home grown, indigenous, local, locative, native, native born, provincial, regional, resident, sectional, topical, vernacular, vicinal), просташки (blatant, caddish, jazz, jumped-up, loud, low-minded, oafish, ornery, philistine, raffish, rank, rough, rude, savage, swinish, tasteless, underbred, unrefined), прост (abc, artless, childlike, common, commonplace, easy, elemental, elementary, funky, grave, homelike, homespun, humble, illiberal, low, native, onefold, open and shut, ordinary, plain, prime, primitive, rugged, rustic, simple, sleazy, straight, straightforward, uncomplicated, unpretentious), парвенюшки (upstart), площаден (commonplace, tub-thumping), плебейски (ignoble, plebeian). (various references)

Chinese 

粗俗 . (various references)

Czech

vulgární (brassy, rank, rough, scurrilous), sprostý (crude, dirty, dunghill, foul, foul-mouthed, gross, indecent, larrikin, mean, nasty, obscene, plebeian, poor, rowdy, scurrilous, squalid), prostý (austere, chaste, coarse, frugal, homely, naked, plain, rustic, simple, single, sober, unaffected, unpretentious, unsophisticated, unworldly), nekultivovaný (coarse, low-browed, plebeian, uncultivated, uneducated, unrefined), hrubý (abusive, blue, boorish, brut, brutish, coarse, coarsened, crass, crude, foul-mouthed, grating, gross, gruff, harsh, howling, knockabout, leathery, low, outrageous, raw, rough, rough and ready, ruddy, rude, rustic, scabrous, sylvan, uncouth, uneven, unmannerly, unprintable). (various references)

Danish

vulgær (common, everyday). (various references)

Dutch

vulgair (common, commonplace, course, everyday), triviaal (commonplace, course), plat (common, commonplace, course, dismal, everyday, flat, plateau, trite), onbenullig (addled, commonplace, course, foolish, stupid). (various references)

Esperanto

vulgara (common, everyday), triviala (commonplace, course). (various references)

Faeroese

vanligur (common, everyday, ordinary, usual), óvandaligur (common, everyday). (various references)

Farsi 

پست (Abacinate, Abject, Cheap, Common, Currish, Despicable, Earthborn, Humble, Infamous, Inferior, Lily, Little, Mail, Menial, Peevish, Poor, Runty, Ungenerous, Venal, Vile, Villain, Villainous, Wretch, Wretched), مبتذل (Banal, Commonplace, Humdrum, Pedestrian, Stale, Trivial), عوامانه (Common), عامیانه (Slangy), رکیک . (various references)

Finnish

rahvaanomainen (peasant, rustic). (various references)

French

vulgaire, trivial. (various references)

German

vulgär (common, everyday, foul-mouthed, rank, vulgarly). (various references)

Greek 

κακόγουστοσ (crude), πρόστυχοσ (bitchy, caddish, cheap, coarse, common, hangdog, ignoble, lawbred, lewd, low, lowdown, low-minded, mean, ornery, raffish, ratty, scurrilous, scurvy, shabby, shoddy, sordid, vile), χυδαίοσ (blatant, coarse, gross, indelicate, lawbred, scurrile, vulgarian). (various references)

Hebrew 

וול�'רי, �"מו� י (boorish, common, of the masses, ornery, slangy, umpteen), �'ס רוח (boor, caddish, haughty, roughneck, rude). (various references)

Hungarian

vulgáris, közönséges (base, coarse, common, commonplace, dismal, garden-variety, normal, ordinary, pig, plebeian, scummy, scurvied, trite, wonted). (various references)

Indonesian

kasar (abrupt, abusive, artless, blunt, boorish, broad, brutal, brutish, crass, crude, curt, disrespectful, gruff, menial, raw, rude, unkind), jorok (shabby). (various references)

Italian

volgare (broad, caddish, coarse, common, everyday, gross, low, lowbrow, Randy, rude, trivial, vernacular). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

粗野 (rough, rude, rustic), 卑しい (base, greedy, humble, mean, shabby, vile), 下劣 (base, mean). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぞくっぽい (cheap, worldly-minded), そや (rough, rude, rustic), ひぞく (bandit, coarse, lineal descendants, rebel, vulgarism, vulgarity), せぞく (common customs, popular, the common people, the world, worldliness), かとう (base, excessive, exorbitant, flexible, fructose, fruit sugar, inferior, light case of smallpox, low grade, lower class, sweetened, sweetening), いやしい (base, greedy, humble, mean, shabby, vile), やひ (base, mean, meanness, vulgarity), �'び (coarse), �'れつ (base, mean), はすっぱ (wanton), はしたない (immodest, unladylike), ていぞく, ていきゅう (low grade, regular holiday, tennis), ていじ�'�" (coarse, low level), え�'つない (dirty, nasty). (various references)

Korean 

� �속한. (various references)

Manx

theayagh (civil; layman, common, folk, lay, plebian, villager), staydoilagh (ceremonial, pompous, pompous person, stately), neughlen (foul, impure, lewd, muddy, unclean), neuellynagh (artless, bad taste, ill-mannered, impolite, inartistic, rude), garroo (boisterous, coarse, coarse-fibred, crude, dirty, dirty of weather, hairy, harsh, husky, ill-mannered, jagged, low, naughty, pockmarked, raw, rough, rough-and-tumble, rough-spoken, rude, rugged, scraggy, stormy, stormy as sea, stubbly, uncouth, undressed, uneven, uneven as ground). (various references)

Pig Latin

ulgarvay

Portuguese

vulgar (accepted, artless, banal, blanket, coarse, common, commonplace, demotic, dismal, earthy, everyday, everything, got drunk, gross, hackneycarriage, hacksaw, humdrum, inelaborate, low, low-necked, mediocre, ordinary, pedestrian crosswalk, penny-a-liner, platitudinous, Plato, prosaic, quotidian, ready made, soulless, trite, trivial, undistinguished, uninspired, unladylike, unoriginal, usual, vulgarian), comum (accepted, accredited, appellative, blanket, cheap, common, commonplace, communal, demotic, everyday, garden, general, habituate, inelaborate, joint, mutual, ordinary, public, run of the mill, usual, vulgarian). (various references)

Romanian

vulgar (base, broad, churlish, coarse, common, gross, large, low, low-lived, unrefined, vile, vulgarly), trivial (coarse, common, foul, licentious, low-lived, peddling, trite, vulgarly), ordinar (boorish, caddish, coarse, common, commonplace, customary, frequent, gross, homespun, improper, ordinary, regular, rough, slavish, trivial, unrefined, usual), grosolan (boorish, broad, brutish, churlish, clumsy, coarse, coarsely, crass, crude, currish, elephantine, flagrant, glaring, gross, grossly, homespun, ill bred, indecorous, indelicately, inurbane, large, loutish, oafish, rank, rough, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, trivial, unaccomplished, unmannerly), de rând (base, common, mean, small), comun (banal, base, common, communal, current, everyday, frequent, general, joint, low, mediocre, mutual, ordinary, rife, universal, usual). (various references)

Russian 

вульгарный (caddish, coarse, common, груб., florid, gross, low-minded, raffish, raunchy, tarty, volgar, vulgarian). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vulgaran (raffish), prostački (chuffed, countrified, grossly, hillbilly, ignoble, low down, low-lived, uncouth, villainous), prost (coarse, common, commoner, easy, folksy, homely, homespun, inurbane, low-bred, lowbrow, mere, rude, simple, trivial, underbred), nepristojan (bawdry, bawdy, improper, indecent, lewd, racy, rude, scabrous, spicy, unbecoming). (various references)

Spanish

vulgar (commonplace, crude, gaudy, humdrum, loud, mundane, ordinary, ornery, pedestrian, tacky, unladylike, vernacular, vulgarian). (various references)

Swedish

vulgär (flash, foul, loud, low, low-minded), tarvlig (cheap, common, frugal, ignoble, low down, paltry, scurvy, seamy, shabby), simpel (base, common, ignoble, low, menial, plain, plebeian, simple, sordid, straightforward), plump (blot, coarse, earthy, indelicate, ribald, scurrilous), ohyfsad (caddish, clownish, crude, ill mannered, ill-behaved, low-bred, rude, uncivil, uncouth, unmannerly, unpolished, unrefined). (various references)

Turkish

kaba (abrupt, barbarous, base, bearish, boorish, brusque, brutal, brutish, churlish, clodhopping, coarse, coarse grained, common, crass, crude, discourteous, disobliging, disrespectful, doric, foul, graceless, gross, gruff, gutter, hard-hitting, harsh, heavy, hobnailed, hoggish, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelegant, loud, loutish, offhand, offhanded, ornery, puffy, rank, rough, rough-hewn, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, short-spoken, splay, swinish, tactless, unceremonious, unchivalrous, uncivil, uncomplaisant, uncomplimentary, uncouth, underbred, unfinished, ungainly, ungalant, ungentle, ungentlemanlike, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, ungracious, unmannerly, unparliamentary, unpolished, unrefined), hoyrat (boorish, flat-footed, ham-fisted, ham-handed, loutish, rough, rustic, uncouth), halka özgü (popular), halk (communal, demo-, demos, folk, grass roots, people, populace, popular, public, the community, the crowd, the million, the people, the vulgar), bayağı (banal, camp, cheap, coarse, coarse grained, common, common as dirt, commonplace, corrupt, dastardly, debased, goodish, inferior, lewd, little, low camp, low class, no class, ordinary, plebeian, pretty, prosaic, quite, rather, run-off-the-mill, shoddy, tawdry, tolerably), basit (basic, countrified, crude, easy, elemental, elementary, everyday, facile, foolproof, frugal, frugally, homely, humble, jejune, potty, primitive, simple, simplex, simplificative, simplistic, small, straightforward, undemanding), adi (abject, base, camp, campy, cheap jack, chintzy, coarse, coarse grained, common, common as dirt, commonplace, contemptible, dastardly, despicable, everyday, groveling, grovelling, gutter, hackneyed, jerkwater, little, low, low class, mean, measly, no class, one horse, ordinary, ornery, picayune, picayunish, poky, rubbishy, shoddy, slavish, sleazy, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, vile, wormy, yellow dog), adí (common, everyday, ordinary, usual). (various references)

Ukranian 

вульгарний (banal, blatant, caddish, coarse, gross, low, low down, non-u, parvenu, raffish, unladylike, vapid, vulgarian), загальнонародний (nationwide), плебейський (plebeian, rascal). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thường dân (civilian, layman), thường (banal, habitual, mediocre, normal, often, oftentimes, ordinary, still, trifling, trivial, unsatisfactory, usual), thông thường (common, commonly, customary, everyday, normal, normally, ordinary, regulation, usual, wonted), thông tục thô bỉ, $the vulgar$ quần chúng. (various references)

Welsh

sathredig (banal, common), gwerinol (plebian). (various references)

sordida, sordidam, sordidis, sordido, sordidos, sordidum, vulgaris. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "vulgar": vulgarer, vulgarest, vulgarian, vulgarians, vulgarise, vulgarised, vulgarises, vulgarising, vulgarism, vulgarisms, vulgarities, vulgarity, vulgarization, vulgarizations, vulgarize, vulgarized, vulgarizer, vulgarizers, vulgarizes, vulgarizing, vulgarly, vulgars. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Vulgar" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bulgar, mulgara, veliger, vilgar, volgar, vugar, vulbar, Vulg, vulga, vulgan, vulgare, vulgari, vulgars, vulgary, vulger, vulguar, vulgur. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: gular, rugal.

-2 letters: gaur, guar, ruga, ulva.

-3 letters: gal, gar, gul, guv, lag, lar, lav, lug, luv, rag, rug, var, vau, vug.

-4 letters: ag, al, ar, la.

+1 letter: vulgars.

+2 letters: vulgarer, vulgarly.

+3 letters: revaluing, vulgarest, vulgarian, vulgarise, vulgarism, vulgarity, vulgarize.

+4 letters: flavouring, overslaugh, regulative, travelogue, unraveling, vulgarians, vulgarised, vulgarises, vulgarisms, vulgarized, vulgarizer, vulgarizes.

+5 letters: outrivaling, overhauling, overslaughs, overvaluing, quaveringly, revaluating, sugarloaves, travelogues, unravelling, vagariously, vulgarising, vulgarities, vulgarizers, vulgarizing.

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