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vulgar

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of vulgar

1 belonging to the class of people of low social or economic rank

paintings that appeal to vulgar tastes

Synonyms of vulgar

baseborn, common, humble, ignoble, inferior, low, low-life, lowborn, lower-class, lowly, lumpen, mean, plebeian, prole, proletarian, unwashed

Words Related to vulgar

bourgeois, middle-class

plain, poor, simple, working-class

déclassé, down-market, downscale

Near Antonyms of vulgar

eminent, illustrious, notable, prominent

Antonyms of vulgar

aristocratic, blue-blooded, genteel, gentle, grand, great, high, highborn, highbred, lofty, noble, patrician, upper-class, upper-crust, wellborn

2 depicting or referring to sexual matters in a way that is unacceptable in polite society

a warning about the movieʼs vulgar language

Synonyms of vulgar

bawdy, blue, coarse, crude, dirty, filthy, foul, gross, gutter, impure, indecent, lascivious, lewd, locker-room, nasty, obscene, pornographic, porny, profane, raunchy, ribald, smutty, stag, trashy, unprintable, wanton, X-rated

Words Related to vulgar

broad, coarse-grained, gamy (or gamey), off, off-color (or off-colored), racy, risqué, salacious, salty, suggestive

barnyard, earthy, scatological

immodest, indecorous, indelicate, low, unbecoming

depraved, kinky, louche, naughty, perverse, perverted, wicked

exceptionable, objectionable, unacceptable, undesirable, unwanted, unwelcome

abhorrent, debasing, disgusting, loathsome, offensive, repellent (also repellant), repugnant, repulsive, revolting

distasteful, obnoxious, unpleasant

blamable, blameworthy, censurable, reprehensible

atrocious, infamous

abusive, scurrilous

hard-core, soft, soft-core

Near Antonyms of vulgar

priggish, prim, prudish, puritanical, staid, straitlaced (or straightlaced), Victorian

correct, decorous, genteel, nice, polite, proper, respectable, seemly

innocuous, inoffensive

acceptable, agreeable, desirable, pleasant, pleasing, welcome

appropriate, becoming, fit, meet, suitable

immaculate, perfect, pure, spotless, virginal

approved, endorsed (also indorsed), sanctioned

Antonyms of vulgar

clean, decent, G-rated, nonobscene, wholesome

3 held by or applicable to a majority of the people

the vulgar opinion is that the nation is in decline

Synonyms of vulgar

common, general, majority, overall, popular, prevailing, public, received, ruling

Words Related to vulgar

unanimous, universal

everyday, familiar, household, usual, well-known

contemporary, current, present

dominant, predominant, preponderant

characteristic, typical

pandemic, pervasive, prevalent, rife, widespread

communal, shared

Near Antonyms of vulgar

rare, strange, unknown, unusual

distinctive, especial, idiosyncratic, peculiar, special, unique

individual, separate, singular

nonpublic, personal, private

Antonyms of vulgar

uncommon, unpopular

4 lacking in refinement or good taste

vulgar behavior shown by someone whoʼs made a lot of money and wants everyone to know it

Synonyms of vulgar

coarse, common, crass, crude, gross, ill-bred, illiberal [archaic], incult, insensible, low, lowbred, lowbrow, raffish, rough, rough-hewn, roughneck, rude, rugged, tasteless, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined

Words Related to vulgar

boorish, churlish, cloddish, clownish, loutish, ungentlemanly

clumsy, lubberly, lumpish, oafish

inconsiderate, indelicate, insensitive, thoughtless

countrified (also countryfied), provincial, rustic (also rustical), unsophisticated

graceless, inelegant, tacky

animallike, barbaric, barbarous, uncivilized

mannerless, unmannered, unmannerly

Near Antonyms of vulgar

aristocratic, courtly, patrician

elegant, graceful, restrained

considerate, gracious, sensitive, thoughtful

citified, sophisticated, urbane

Antonyms of vulgar

civilized, cultivated, cultured, genteel, polished, refined, smooth, tasteful, ultrarefined, well-bred

5 used in or suitable for speech and not formal writing

Latin was once the language of scholars, and English the vulgar language used by the common people

Synonyms of vulgar

colloquial, conversational, informal, nonformal, nonliterary, unbookish, unliterary, vernacular

Words Related to vulgar

dialectal, dialectical (also dialectic), nonstandard, regional

incorrect, nongrammatical, substandard, uneducated, ungrammatical, unlearned

Near Antonyms of vulgar

standard, undialectical

correct, educated, genteel, grammatical, proper

Antonyms of vulgar

bookish, formal, learned, literary

Synonym Discussion of vulgar

common, ordinary, plain, familiar, popular, vulgar mean generally met with and not in any way special, strange, or unusual. common implies usual everyday quality or frequency of occurrence

- a common error
- lacked common honesty

and may additionally suggest inferiority or coarseness.

- common manners

ordinary stresses conformance in quality or kind with the regular order of things.

- an ordinary pleasant summer day
- a very ordinary sort of man

plain is likely to suggest homely simplicity.

- plain hard-working people

familiar stresses the fact of being generally known and easily recognized.

- a familiar melody

popular applies to what is accepted by or prevalent among people in general sometimes in contrast to upper classes or special groups.

- a writer of popular romances

vulgar, otherwise similar to popular, is likely to carry derogatory connotations (as of inferiority or coarseness).

- souvenirs designed to appeal to the vulgar taste

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