vulgar
pronunciation
How to pronounce vulgar in British English:
UK [ˈvʌlɡə(r)]
How to pronounce vulgar in American English:
US [ˈvʌlɡər]
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- Adjective:
- lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
- of or associated with the great masses of people
- being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
- conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
Word Origin
- vulgar
- vulgar: [14] Latin vulgus, a word of uncertain origin, denoted the ‘common people’. From it was derived the adjective vulgāris, from which English gets vulgar. The Vulgate [17], a version of the Bible translated into Latin in the 4th century, was so called because it made the text available to the ‘common people’. Divulge comes from the same source, and means etymologically ‘make known to the common people’.=> divulge
- vulgar (adj.)
- late 14c., "common, ordinary," from Latin vulgaris, volgaris "of or pertaining to the common people, common, vulgar, low, mean," from vulgus "the common people, multitude, crowd, throng," perhaps from a PIE root *wel- "to crowd, throng" (cognates: Sanskrit vargah "division, group," Greek eilein "to press, throng," Middle Breton gwal'ch "abundance," Welsh gwala "sufficiency, enough") [not in Watkins]. Meaning "coarse, low, ill-bred" is first recorded 1640s, probably from earlier use (with reference to people) with meaning "belonging to the ordinary class" (1530). Related: Vulgarly.
Example
- 1. But this focus on money is vulgar .
- 2. Love land in chongqing aims to address taboo and improve sex education but many residents see it as vulgar .
- 3. We pre fer its most vulgar poetry to the face itself .
- 4. To give such feedback is not rude or vulgar .
- 5. However , the phenomenon of college polarization decided by social gap indicates that society has navigated college instead , rendering it to be a vulgar minimized community .