vulgar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvʌl.ɡə/
enpr: vŭlʹgər
ipa: /ˈvʌl.ɡɚ/
rhymes: -ʌlɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more vulgar
form: vulgarer
form: most vulgar
form: vulgarest
form: vulgare
Etymology: From Middle English vulgare, from Latin vulgāris, from volgus, vulgus (“mob; common folk”), from Proto-Indo-European *wl̥k-. Compare Welsh gwala (“plenty, sufficiency”), Ancient Greek ἁλία (halía, “assembly”), εἰλέω (eiléō, “to compress”), Old Church Slavonic великъ (velikŭ, “great”).
Senses: examples: text: vulgar language
text: vulgar words
text: a truly vulgar showing of affection
text: vulgar and highly distressing scenes
text: Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.
ref: 1551, James A.H. Murray, editor, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society., volume 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1888, Part 1, page 217:
text: And, placed discreetly among these commonplaces, a few pieces of genuine quality, bizarrely distinguished by craftsmanship from the vulgar products of the machine.
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 150:
text: Several years ago I interviewed the CEO of a car manufacturer whose products start in the six figures. He told me his customers could always afford to buy his cars, but in recessions they found it vulgar to do so.
ref: 2023 May 28, Robert Armstrong, “The world wobbles; the luxury industry strides on”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 21:
coordinate_terms: derogatory
disparaging
offensive
glosses: Debased; uncouth; distasteful; obscene.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: vulgate; vulgarized
text: It might be more useful to the English reader […] to write in our vulgar language.
ref: 1661, John Fell, The Life of Dr. Hammond:
text: The mechanical process of multiplying books had brought the New Testament in the vulgar tongue within the reach of every class.
ref: 1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC:
text: Further, the same sacred name in other monuments precedes the vulgar name of King Takellothis, the sixth of the XXII. Dyn., as we have seen.
ref: 1860, G. Syffarth, “A Remarkable Seal in Dr. Abbott's Museum at New York”, in Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, page 265:
glosses: Having to do with ordinary, common people.
examples: text: vulgar bush brown (Bicyclus vulgaris)
text: A vulture (V. aura), probably the Acabiry first described by Azara, is here called […] the hunter. It resembles in form the vulgar bird, but it flies high. The head is red, and the wings are black with silver lining, like the noble Bateleur of Africa.
ref: 1869, Richard Francis Burton, The Highlands of the Brazil, page 85:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: Common, usual; of the typical kind.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2022, Mary Jane Sterling, Algebra II All-in-One For Dummies, page 282:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Being a vulgar fraction.
Synonyms: sense: obscene
word: inappropriate
sense: obscene
word: obscene
sense: obscene
word: debased
sense: obscene
word: uncouth
sense: obscene
word: offensive
sense: obscene
word: ignoble
sense: obscene
word: mean
sense: obscene
word: profane
sense: obscene
word: crass
sense: obscene
word: crude
sense: obscene
word: coarse
sense: ordinary
word: common
sense: ordinary
word: ordinary
sense: ordinary
word: popular
Derived terms: sense: obscene
word: vulgarity
sense: obscene
word: vulgarian
sense: ordinary
word: vulgar fraction
sense: ordinary
word: vulgate
sense: ordinary
word: Vulgate
word: Vulgar Era
word: vulgar fraction
word: Vulgar Latin
word: vulgar Marxism