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Definition of Vulgar

1. Adjective. Lacking refinement or cultivation or taste. "The vulgar display of the newly rich"

2. Adjective. Of or associated with the great masses of people. "The unwashed masses"

3. Adjective. Being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language. "The technical and vulgar names for an animal species"

4. Adjective. Conspicuously and tastelessly indecent. "Full of language so vulgar it should have been edited"

Definition of Vulgar

1. a. Of or pertaining to the mass, or multitude, of people; common; general; ordinary; public; hence, in general use; vernacular.

2. n. One of the common people; a vulgar person.

3. a. Of or pertaining to the mass, or multitude, of people; common; general; ordinary; public; hence, in general use; vernacular.

4. n. One of the common people; a vulgar person.

Definition of Vulgar

1. Adjective. Debased, uncouth, distasteful, obscene. ¹

2. Adjective. (context: classical sense) Having to do with ordinary, common people. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Vulgar

1. crude [adj -GARER, -GAREST] : VULGARLY [adv] / a common person [n -S] - See also: crude

Medical Definition of Vulgar

1. 1. Of or pertaining to the mass, or multitude, of people; common; general; ordinary; public; hence, in general use; vernacular. "As common as any the most vulgar thing to sense. " "Things vulgar, and well-weighed, scarce worth the praise." (Milton) "It might be more useful to the English reader . . . To write in our vulgar language." (Bp. Fell) "The mechanical process of multiplying books had brought the new Testament in the vulgar tongue within the reach of every class." (Bancroft) 2. 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. "Like the vulgar sort of market men." "Men who have passed all their time in low and vulgar life." (Addison) "In reading an account of a battle, we follow the hero with our whole attention, but seldom reflect on the vulgar heaps of slaughter." (Rambler) 3. Hence, lacking cultivation or refinement; rustic; boorish; also, offensive to good taste or refined feelings; low; coarse; mean; base; as, vulgar men, minds, language, or manners. "Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar." (Shak) Vulgar fraction. See Fraction. Origin: L. Vulgaris, from vulgus the multitude, the common people; of uncertain origin: cf. F. Vulgaire. Cf. Divulge. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Vulgar

vulcanized fiber vulcanizer vulcanizers vulcanizes vulcanizing vulcano vulcanoes vulcanoid vulcanoids vulcanologies

vulcanologist vulcanologists vulcanology vulcanos vulcans vulgar (current term) vulgar fraction vulgar fractions vulgarer vulgarest

vulgarian vulgarians vulgaris vulgarisation vulgarisations vulgarise vulgarised vulgariser vulgarises vulgarising

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