vulgar

Definitions

1. adjective

   Debased; uncouth; distasteful; obscene.

   Examples

   • vulgar language
   • vulgar words
   ≈inappropriate≈debased≈uncouth≈offensive≈ignoble +41 more
2. adjective

   Having to do with ordinary, common people.

   Examples

   • Near-synonyms: vulgate; vulgarized
   • It might be more useful to the English reader […] to write in our vulgar language.
   ≈common≈popular≈vulgate≈vulgarized
3. adjective

   Common, usual; of the typical kind.

   Example

   • vulgar bush brown (Bicyclus vulgaris)
   ≈customary≈ordinary≈typical≈average≈medial +35 more
4. adjective

   Being a vulgar fraction.

   Example

   • A fraction is vulgar if it has one integer divided by another integer, as long as the integer that's doing the dividing isn't equal to zero.
5. noun

   A common, ordinary person.

   Example

   • Popular antiquarian writings […] frequently focused on the regional vulgars' superstitious beliefs regarding the dead and their ongoing presence-such as popular funeral rites or the vulgars' fear of church yards.
6. noun

   The common people.

7. noun

   The language of a people, especially the commoners.

   Example

   • Therefore you Clowne, abandon: which is in the vulgar, leaue the societie: which in the boorish, is companie, of this female: which in the common, is woman: which together, is, abandon the society of this Female, […]
   ≈vulgate≈vernacular