being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species"
conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited"
disapproval If you describe something as vulgar, you think it is in bad taste or of poor artistic quality. The film is tasteless, vulgar and even badly shot. + vulgarity vul·gar·ity I hate the vulgarity of this room
of or associated with the great masses of people; "the common people in those days suffered greatly"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "his square plebeian nose"; "a vulgar and objectionable person"; "the unwashed masses"
Of or pertaining to the mass, or multitude, of people; common; general; ordinary; public; hence, in general use; vernacular
Belonging or relating to the common people, as distinguished from the cultivated or educated; pertaining to common life; plebeian; not select or distinguished; hence, sometimes, of little or no value
disapproval If you describe a person or their behaviour as vulgar, you mean that they lack taste or behave rudely. He was a vulgar old man, but he never swore in front of a woman = crude + vulgarity vul·gar·ity It's his vulgarity that I can't take
lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich"
disapproval If you describe pictures, gestures, or remarks as vulgar, you dislike them because they refer to sex or parts of the body in a rude way that you find unpleasant. The women laughed coarsely at some vulgar jokes The lyrics were vulgar. + vulgarity vul·gar·ity There's a good deal of vulgarity