Vulgar
['vʌlgə] or ['vʌlɡɚ]
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to the mass, or multitude, of people; common; general; ordinary; public; hence, in general use; vernacular.
(a.) 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.
(a.) 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.
(n.) One of the common people; a vulgar person.
(n.) The vernacular, or common language.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Plebeian, low-born, base-born, untitled.[2]. Homespun, rustic, boorish, unrefined, low-bred.[3]. General, common, ordinary, popular.[4]. Low, mean, base, gross, coarse, vile, broad.[5]. Unauthorized, inelegant, cant.[6]. [Rare.] Vernacular, native.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Popular, general, loose, ordinary, public, vernacular, plebeian, uncultivated,unrefined, low, mean, coarse, underbred
ANT:Strict, scientific, philosophical, restricted, technical, accurate, patrician,select, choice, cultivated, refined, polite, high-bred, stylish, aristocratic
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Definition
adj. pertaining to or used by the common people native: public: common; national vernacular: mean or low: rude.—n. the common people: the common language of a country.—ns. Vulgā′rian a vulgar person: a rich unrefined person; Vulgarisā′tion a making widely known: a making coarse or common.—v.t. Vul′garise to make vulgar or rude.—ns. Vul′garism a vulgar phrase: coarseness; Vulgar′ity Vul′garness quality of being vulgar: mean condition of life: rudeness of manners.—adv. Vul′garly.—n. Vul′gate an ancient Latin version of the Scriptures so called from its common use in the R.C. Church prepared by Jerome in the fourth century and pronounced 'authentic' by the Council of Trent.—Vulgar fraction a fraction written in the common way.—The vulgar the common people.
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Examples
- The gal's manners is dreadful vulgar; and the boy breathes so very hard while he's eating, that we found it impossible to sit at table with him. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- They had never troubled me before, but they troubled me now, as vulgar appendages. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Just as they always dovery vulgar. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Hard, loud, vain and vulgar, her mind and body alike seemed brazen and imperishable. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- In short, not altogether liking the words my dear, as they had been applied to me by her husband, she thought it monstrous vulgar! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The vulgar are commonly guided by the first, and wise men by the second. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The book treats of the weakness of human kind, and is in little esteem, except among the women and the vulgar. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- This is the doctrine of the vulgar, and implies no contradiction. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Juries,' said Mr. Bumble, grasping his cane tightly, as was his wont when working into a passion: 'juries is ineddicated, vulgar, grovelling wretches. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- These latter pupils were not the only young men of promise whose vulgar faith and patriotism Socrates destroyed, to leave nothing in its place. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The learned among them confess the absurdity of this doctrine; but the practice still continues, in compliance to the vulgar. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- But that kind of thing is rather--vulgar, isn't it? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I think they are, without exception, the most vulgar girls in Highbury. Jane Austen. Emma.
- We would simply suggest that the practice of vulgar young boys in the gallery of shying peanuts and paper pellets at the tigers, and saying Hi-yi! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It spread rather in spite of than because of the concessions that it made to vulgar imaginations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This phaenomenon is analogous to the system of pride and humility above-explained, which may seem so extraordinary to vulgar apprehensions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- I wish you would not be so vulgar, Fred. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Hermione felt injured, that all her good intention, all her offering, only left the other woman in vulgar antagonism. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And he decided that, according to the vulgar phrase, he had done it 'accidentally on purpose. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The date was towards the end of June, or the beginning of July, and the name (in my opinion a remarkably vulgar one) was Fanny. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- She was in fact in urgent and immediate need of money: money to meet the vulgar weekly claims which could neither be deferred nor evaded. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Our not remote ancestors held the right of life and death over the surrounding vulgar. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a mere vulgar intrigue. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- And now, Socrates, as you rebuked the vulgar manner in which I praised astronomy before, my praise shall be given in your own spirit. Plato. The Republic.
- He was no less conscious than before of what was said of Lily Bart, but he could separate the woman he knew from the vulgar estimate of her. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- This is one small sample of the vast accumulation of vulgar marvels that presently sprang up about the memory of Gautama. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He will be a completely gross, vulgar farmer, totally inattentive to appearances, and thinking of nothing but profit and loss. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Vitruvius was far from sharing the view of Archimedes that art which was connected with the satisfaction of daily needs was necessarily ignoble and vulgar. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Both philosophers and the vulgar suppose the first of these to have a distinct continued existence. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- I only know it has a very vulgar sound and I don't want to hear you using it. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
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