VULGAR

crude, earthy, gross, vulgar

(adjective) 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”

common, vernacular, vulgar

(adjective) 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”

common, plebeian, vulgar, unwashed

(adjective) 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”

coarse, common, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar

(adjective) 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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Adjective

vulgar (comparative more vulgar or vulgarer, superlative most vulgar or vulgarest)

Debased, uncouth, distasteful, obscene.

• The construction worker made a vulgar suggestion to the girls walking down the street.

(classical sense) Having to do with ordinary, common people.

(especially, taxonomy) Common, usual; of the typical kind.

Synonyms

• (obscene): inappropriate, obscene, debased, uncouth, offensive, ignoble, mean, profane

• (ordinary): common, ordinary, popular

Noun

vulgar (plural vulgars)

(classicism) A common, ordinary person.

(collective) The common people.

The vernacular tongue or common language of a country.

Source: Wiktionary

Vul"gar, a. Etym: [L. vulgaris, from vulgus the multitude, the common people; of uncertain origin: cf. F. vulgaire. Cf. Divulge.]

1. Of or pertaining to the mass, or multitude, of people; common; general; ordinary; public; hence, in general use; vernacular. "As common as any the most vulgar thing to sense. " Shak. Things vulgar, and well-weighed, scarce worth the praise. Milton. It might be more useful to the English reader . . . to write in our vulgar language. Bp. Fell. The mechanical process of multiplying books had brought the New Testament in the vulgar tongue within the reach of every class. Bancroft.

2. Belonging or relating to the common people, as distinguished from the cultivated or educated; pertaining to common life; plebeian; not select or distinguished; hence, sometimes, of little or no value. "Like the vulgar sort of market men." Shak. Men who have passed all their time in low and vulgar life. Addison. In reading an account of a battle, we follow the hero with our whole attention, but seldom reflect on the vulgar heaps of slaughter. Rambler.

3. Hence, lacking cultivation or refinement; rustic; boorish; also, offensive to good taste or refined feelings; low; coarse; mean; base; as, vulgar men, minds, language, or manners. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. Shak. Vulgar fraction. (Arith.) See under Fraction.

Vul"gar, n. Etym: [Cf. F. vulgaire.]

1. One of the common people; a vulgar person. [Obs.] These vile vulgars are extremely proud. Chapman.

2. The vernacular, or common language. [Obs.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition