Definition of vulgar

Scrabble & Words with friends points

• vulgar is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 10
• vulgar is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 10
• vulgar is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 14

Definition of vulgar

• being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language (adjective)

  Examples

  1. the vulgar tongue of the masses
  2. the technical and vulgar names for an animal species

  Synonyms

  1. common
  2. vernacular
• conspicuously and tastelessly indecent (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a vulgar gesture
  2. full of language so vulgar it should have been edited

  Synonyms

  1. crude
  2. earthy
  3. gross
• lacking refinement or cultivation or taste (adjective)

  Examples

  1. appealing to the vulgar taste for violence
  2. the vulgar display of the newly rich

  Synonyms

  1. coarse
  2. common
  3. rough-cut
  4. uncouth
• of or associated with the great masses of people (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a vulgar and objectionable person

  Synonyms

  1. common
  2. plebeian
  3. unwashed

See definition of vulgar in Merriam Webster