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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (4)

1. lacking refinement or cultivation or taste;
- Example: "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"
- Example: "behavior that branded him as common"
- Example: "an untutored and uncouth human being"
- Example: "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"
- Example: "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"
- Example: "the vulgar display of the newly rich"
[syn: coarse, common, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar]

2. of or associated with the great masses of people;
- Example: "the common people in those days suffered greatly"
- Example: "behavior that branded him as common"
- Example: "his square plebeian nose"
- Example: "a vulgar and objectionable person"
- Example: "the unwashed masses"
[syn: common, plebeian, vulgar, unwashed]

3. being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language;
- Example: "common parlance"
- Example: "a vernacular term"
- Example: "vernacular speakers"
- Example: "the vulgar tongue of the masses"
- Example: "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species"
[syn: common, vernacular, vulgar]

4. conspicuously and tastelessly indecent;
- Example: "coarse language"
- Example: "a crude joke"
- Example: "crude behavior"
- Example: "an earthy sense of humor"
- Example: "a revoltingly gross expletive"
- Example: "a vulgar gesture"
- Example: "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited"
[syn: crude, earthy, gross, vulgar]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Vulgar \Vul"gar\, a. [L. vulgaris, from vulgus the multitude,
   the common people; of uncertain origin: cf. F. vulgaire. Cf.
   Divulge.]
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   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. " -- Shak.
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            Things vulgar, and well-weighed, scarce worth the
            praise.                               --Milton.
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            It might be more useful to the English reader . . .
            to write in our vulgar language.      --Bp. Fell.
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            The mechanical process of multiplying books had
            brought the New Testament in the vulgar tongue
            within the reach of every class.      --Bancroft.
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   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." --Shak.
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            Men who have passed all their time in low and vulgar
            life.                                 --Addison.
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            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.
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   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.
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            Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. --Shak.
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   Vulgar fraction. (Arith.) See under Fraction.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Vulgar \Vul"gar\, n. [Cf. F. vulgaire.]
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   1. One of the common people; a vulgar person. [Obs.]
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            These vile vulgars are extremely proud. --Chapman.
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   2. The vernacular, or common language. [Obs.]
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

vulgar
    adj 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" [syn: coarse, common,
           rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar]
    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" [syn:
       common, plebeian, vulgar, unwashed]
    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" [syn: common,
       vernacular, vulgar]
    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" [syn: crude,
       earthy, gross, vulgar]