| Adj. | 1. | vulgar - 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"unrefined - used of persons and their behavior; not refined; uncouth; "how can a refined girl be drawn to such an unrefined man?" | |
| 2. | vulgar - 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"lowborn - of humble birth or origins; "a topsy-turvy society of lowborn rich and blue-blooded poor" | |
| 3. | vulgar - 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"informal - used of spoken and written language | |
| 4. | vulgar - 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"indecent - offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters; "an earthy but not indecent story"; "an indecent gesture" | |