vulgar
adjective
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind
Related & opposite
- grossness derivation
- uncouthness derivation
- commonality derivation
- vulgarize derivation
- vulgarize derivation
- unrefined similar to
Sense 2 adjective
of or associated with the great masses of people
the common people in those days suffered greatly
Related & opposite
- commonality derivation
- commonality derivation
- plebeian derivation
- vulgarize derivation
- lowborn similar to
Sense 3 adjective
being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
common parlance
Related & opposite
- commonplaceness derivation
- vernacular derivation
- informal similar to
Sense 4 adjective
conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
coarse language
Related & opposite
- grossness derivation
- gaucheness derivation
- indecent similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | grossness |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | uncouthness |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | commonality |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | vulgarize |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | vulgarize |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | unrefined |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | commonality |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | commonality |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | plebeian |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | vulgarize |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | lowborn |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | commonplaceness |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | vernacular |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | informal |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | grossness |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | gaucheness |
| 4 | similar to | Related & opposite | indecent |