Vulgar (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

adjective
  1. characterized by ignorance of or lack of good breeding or taste: vulgar ostentation.
  2. indecent; obscene; lewd: a vulgar work; a vulgar gesture.
  3. crude; coarse; unrefined: a vulgar peasant.
  4. of, relating to, or constituting the ordinary people in a society: the vulgar masses.
  5. current; popular; common: a vulgar success; vulgar beliefs.
  6. spoken by, or being in the language spoken by, the people generally; vernacular: vulgar tongue.
  7. lacking in distinction, aesthetic value, or charm; banal; ordinary: a vulgar painting.
noun
  1. the common people.
  2. the vernacular.
adjective
  1. marked by lack of taste, culture, delicacy, manners, etc
  2. denoting a form of a language, esp of Latin, current among common people, esp at a period when the formal language is archaic and not in general spoken use
  3. archaic
    • of, relating to, or current among the great mass of common people, in contrast to the educated, cultured, or privileged; ordinary
    • (as collective noun; preceded by the)
Vulgar (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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