Synonyms for vulgar
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Lacking in refinement or taste
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.
Antonyms refined, elegant, genteel.
Obscene
indecent, obscene, lewd; see lewd 1.
Common
ordinary, familiar, popular, colloquial; see colloquial, common 1. See syn. study at coarse, common.
See vulgar in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
adjective
Lacking high station or birth:
baseborn, common, déclassé, declassed, humble, ignoble, lowly, mean2, plebeian, unwashed. (Archaic) base2. See overLacking 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, smoothOffensive 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
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