vulgar

I

(Roget's IV) modif.

1. [Lacking in refinement or taste]

Syn. coarse, crude, crass, unrefined, uncouth, indelicate, boorish, uncultivated, gross, low, common, tasteless, inelegant, cheap, ostentatious, overdone, pretentious, gaudy, tacky*; see also rude 1 , tasteless 3 .

Ant. refined, elegant, genteel.

2. [Obscene]

Syn. indecent, obscene, lewd; see lewd 1 .

3. [Common]

Syn. ordinary, familiar, popular, colloquial; see colloquial , common 1 .

See Synonym Study at coarse , common .

II

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.

1. common popular, everyday, general, plebeian, folk, of the masses, proletarian, working class, colloquial.

2. crude coarse, unrefined, *gross, rough, boorish, uncultivated, ill-bred, ill-mannered, uncivilized, loutish, impolite.

3. indecent obscene, tasteless, disgusting, *gross, dirty, offensive, X-rated, blue, ribald, off-color, smutty.

ANT.: 1. upper class, aristocratic. 2. refined, civilized, well-mannered, well-bred. 3. tasteful, decent, clean, G-rated

III

(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Lacking high station or birth: baseborn, common, declasse, declassed, humble, ignoble, lowly, mean2, plebeian, unwashed. Archaic: base2. See OVER. 2. Lacking in delicacy or refinement: barbarian, barbaric, boorish, churlish, coarse, crass, crude, gross, ill-bred, indelicate, philistine, rough, rude, tasteless, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined. See COURTESY, SMOOTH. 3. Offensive to accepted standards of decency: barnyard, bawdy, broad, coarse, dirty, Fescennine, filthy, foul, gross, lewd, nasty, obscene, profane, ribald, scatologic, scatological, scurrilous, smutty. Slang: raunchy. See DECENT.