vulgar

Meaning

Adj

1. Debased, uncouth, distasteful, obscene.
2. Having to do with ordinary, common people.
3. Common, usual; of the typical kind.
4. Being a vulgar fraction.

Noun

1. A common, ordinary person.
2. The common people.
3. The vernacular tongue or common language of a country.

Synonyms

coarse

common

crude

rude

obscene

indecent

base

low

rough

uncouth

gross

mean

cheap

unrefined

rustic

common people

ordinary

lewd

raw

dirty

boorish

vile

tacky

shabby

rabble

plebeian

lowbred

violent

popular

unpolished

worldly-minded

earthy

harsh

humble

abusive

flashy

shoddy

showy

low-class

flat

commonplace

caddish

tasteless

greedy

masses

hard

uncultivated

uncultured

uneducated

cunt

blunt

unwashed

unworked

unwrought

churlish

vernacular

profane

vulgarity

wild

impolite

low grade

indelicate

inferior

rough-cut

silly

slangy

smutty

sordid

spicy

stupid

suggestive

tatty

terrible

trivial

uncivilised

uncivilized

unclean

unconsecrated

underworld

ungentlemanly

unladylike

unlettered

unmannered

unskillful

unsophisticated

usual

vulgarian

vulgarism

wanton

world

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worldliness

worldly

non-U

Vulgate

common customs

ill-behaved

noncivilised

noncivilized

ungentlemanlike

scurrile

agrarian

audacious

awful

bad

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barbarian

barbaric

barbarous

big

bitchy

blatant

brusque

cheeky

clownish

clumsy

corny

course

dark

demotic

depraved

everyday

familiar

filthy

garish

general

graceless

hackneyed

hangdog

idiotic

ignoble

ill-bred

immodest

impudent

inelegant

insipid

insolent

lecherous

lousy

lowdown

low-down

lower class

low level

low-level

low-minded

lustful

narrow-minded

nasty

negligent

ornery

outrageous

poor

populace

proletarian

provocative

raffish

ratty

ribald

roughneck

rowdy

rudimentary

rural

scurrilous

scurvy

secular

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈvʌl.ɡə/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: vulgare

Cognate with Welsh: gwala

Cognate with Ancient Greek: ἁλία

Cognate with Church Slavic: великъ

In summary

From Middle English vulgare, from Latin vulgāris, from volgus, vulgus (“mob; common folk”), from Proto-Indo-European *wl̥k-. Compare Welsh gwala (“plenty, sufficiency”), Ancient Greek ἁλία (halía, “assembly”), εἰλέω (eiléō, “to compress”), Old Church Slavonic великъ (velikŭ, “great”).