meaning of vulgar
1. Of or pertaining to the mass, or multitude, of people; common; general; ordinary; public; hence, in general use; vernacular.
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.
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.
4. One of the common people; a vulgar person.
5. The vernacular, or common language.
6. 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
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vulgar | vulgar latin | vulgarian | vulgarisation | vulgarise | vulgariser | vulgarism | vulgarity | vulgarization | vulgarize | vulgarized | vulgarizer | vulgarizing | vulgarly | vulgarness |
