vulgar

Meanings

Adjective

• Debased, uncouth, distasteful, obscene.
• Having to do with ordinary, common people.
• Common, usual; of the typical kind.

Noun

• A common, ordinary person.
• The common people.
• The vernacular tongue or common language of a country.

Related

Similar words

• inappropriate, obscene, debased, uncouth, offensive, ignoble, mean, profane
• common, ordinary, popular

Origin

• Borrowed into Middle English from Latin vulgāris, from volgus, vulgus, from Proto-Indo-European *wl̥k- (compare Welsh gwala ("plenty, sufficiency"), Ancient Greek ἁλία ("assembly") εἰλέω, Old Church Slavonic великъ ("great").