Vulgar synonyms and antonyms
vŭl'gər
Category:
Part of speech:
(Archaic) Not known or familiar; strange
Unrefined or coarse in manner; vulgar:
Ostentatious; intended to impress others.
Characterized by bathos
Tasteless, insensitive, and coarse
Without taste or flavor; flat; insipid
With no deductions; total; entire
Relating to or being a bomb that uses a conventional explosive and radioactive material to contaminate an area with low-level radiation.
Commonplace; ordinary
Offensive to accepted standards of decency
licentious (related)
Being in a natural state.
Advertisement
Relatively low in cost; inexpensive or comparatively inexpensive.
Crude, raw or unprocessed
Behaving as a boor; rough in manners; rude; uncultured.
Lacking refinement or polish; not elegant.
Advertisement
The definition of gaudy is something that is bright and ornate, but overdone to the point of being tacky.
Lacking style or good taste; tawdry:
Showing, or intended to excite, lust or sexual desire, esp. in an offensive way; lascivious
Not particularly good; not better than average:
Often encountered or seen:
Characteristic of or appropriate to the spoken language or to writing that seeks the effect of speech; informal.
refined (antonym)
Showing or having good feelings or good taste.
elegant (antonym)
Characterized by a sense of propriety or refinement; impressively fastidious in manners and tastes
rude (related)
coarse (related)
Lacking in refinement or good taste; vulgar; crude
The definition of base is something that forms a foundation.
Advertisement
Strikingly regional or dialectal:
Unadorned and simple in style:
Being usually the case; true or applicable in most instances but not all:
Not noble in quality, character, or purpose; base or dishonorable.
Morally offensive; obscene
Disrespectful, cynical, cavilling, querulous, or vulgar, where one's own feelings, or especially deference to the feelings of others, customarily command silence, discretion, and circumspection.
Advertisement
Plausible but false or insincere; specious:
Offensive to one's feelings, or to prevailing notions, of modesty or decency; lewd
Lacking appreciation of culture; also philistine.
Depicting something in detail, usually unnecessarily.
Advertisement
Not admitted into a body of secret knowledge or ritual; uninitiated.
rabelaisian
Of or like Rabelais or his works; broadly and coarsely humorous, satirical, etc.
Engaged in revolt; rebellious
The definition of ribald is something that references sexual matters in a bawdy or humorous way.
Suggestive of sexual impropriety; bordering on the indelicate.
scurrile
(Archaic) scurrilous
(Of a person) given to vulgar verbal abuse; foul-mouthed
Advertisement
Affected with plant smut
Squalid; depressingly wretched
Specious is defined as something that looks right, or that looks attractive, but is not as it seems.
Shameful or indecent:
Relating to or designating the common, nonscientific name of a biological species.
Offensive to the senses or sensibilities; repulsive; disgusting
Advertisement
An example of ribald language or humor
The quality of being vulgar, coarse, or abusive.
The quality or condition of being vulgar.
The act or an instance of making vulgar, coarse, unrefined, obscene, etc.
Advertisement
heathenize
To make or become heathen
paganize
To make or become pagan
To disseminate widely; popularize.
chaste (antonym)
Pure, decent, or modest in nature, behavior, etc.
dainty (antonym)
Overly or affectedly fastidious; squeamish
pure (antonym)
Containing nothing inappropriate or extraneous:
fashionable (antonym)
aesthetic (antonym)
Concerned with beauty, artistic impact, or appearance.
artistic (antonym)
Showing imagination and skill:
decent (antonym)
Reasonably good; adequate
polite (antonym)
Marked by or showing consideration for others and observance of accepted social usage.
nice (antonym)
Used as an intensive with and :
inoffensive (antonym)
Not offensive
Of humble birth or origin
déclassé
Lacking high station or birth
Lacking high station or birth
Not lofty or sublime; humble.
Common or poor in appearance; shabby:
Not washed; unclean.
Cruel; barbarous
Brutal or cruel:
Not polished; uncut; said of a gem.
Used to describe people who display a marked lack of manners as defined by a given culture.
Not cultured or cultivated:
Of a barnyard
The definition of bawdy is something gross, indecent or overly graphic.
Vulgar; obscene; scurrilous
Covered or smeared with filth; disgustingly dirty.
Offensive to the senses; revolting:
Offensive in taste or smell; nauseating
Relating to scatology, the usage of obscenities.
Of poor quality, appearance, etc.; dirty, cheap, sloppy, etc.
over (related)
Having reached the other side; having got across
smooth (related)
Having no obstructions or difficulties:
contemptible (related)
banal (related)
puerile (related)
pompous (related)
hateful (related)
insolent (related)
vapid (related)
childish (related)
vacuous (related)
The definition of maudlin is someone who is overly sentimental, often in a tearful way or as a result of consuming alcohol.
Having or showing a consciousness of one's defects or shortcomings; not overly proud; not self-assertive; modest
lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
Find another word for vulgar. In this page you can discover 119 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for vulgar, like: uncouth, common, pretentious, bathetic, crass, tasteless, overdone, gross, dirty, plebeian and scatologic.
Trending topics