vulgar
Crude and tasteless
Vulgar describes what is crude, coarse, or lacking in taste or refinement.
Vulgar language includes profanity and obscenity.
Vulgar humor relies on bodily functions or sexual content.
A vulgar display of wealth is ostentatious and tasteless.
The older sense—common or ordinary, belonging to the masses—survives in phrases like the vulgar tongue (everyday language versus Latin) but sounds archaic.
Vulgar or obscene speech
- cursingUsing profane language
- swearingProfane speech or vows
- expletiveProfane emotional utterance
- foul-mouthedUsing crude language habitually
off-color · obscenity · blasphemy · scatological · taboo · unprintable · four-letter · censored
Obscenely sexual
- lasciviousOvertly sexual in manner
- salaciousLewdly interested in intimacy
- prurientObsessed with sexual matters
- licentiousSexually unrestrained behavior
lecherous · suggestive · titillating · pornographic · erotic · libidinous · indecent · risqué
Lacking good manners
- boorishCrudely ill-mannered
- unrefinedNot processed or polished
- crassCrudely lacking refinement
- crudeUnpolished, raw state
lowbrow · uncultured · tactless · indelicate · rough · earthy · unsophisticated · gauche
Tastelessly ornate
- garishTastelessly showy
- tackyVulgar or slightly sticky
- kitschTasteless, garish art
- flashyShowy, often tastelessly so
ostentatious · showy · tawdry · cheap · loud · brash · flamboyant · overdone
Standard, unremarkable
- plebeianOrdinary, unrefined person
- vernacularEveryday regional speech
- colloquialCasual, everyday language
- demoticOf common folk
populist · everyday · commonplace · pedestrian · lowborn · proletarian · working-class · masses
profanity
Vulgar or obscene speech
foul-mouthed · off-color · obscenity · blasphemy · scatological · taboo · unprintable · four-letter · censored · indecent
lewd
Obscenely sexual
- lasciviousOvertly sexual in manner
- salaciousLewdly interested in intimacy
- prurientObsessed with sexual matters
licentious · lecherous · suggestive · titillating · pornographic · erotic · libidinous · indecent · risqué · adult
uncouth
Lacking good manners
crude · lowbrow · uncultured · tactless · indelicate · rough · earthy · unsophisticated · gauche · inelegant
gaudy
Tastelessly ornate
flashy · ostentatious · showy · tawdry · cheap · loud · brash · flamboyant · overdone · glitzy
ordinary
Standard, unremarkable
- plebeianOrdinary, unrefined person
- vernacularEveryday regional speech
- colloquialCasual, everyday language
demotic · populist · everyday · commonplace · pedestrian · lowborn · proletarian · working-class · masses · hoi polloi
- risquerisque, racy, bawdy, ribald, suggestive
- speech registersformal, informal, casual, colloquial, vernacular
- aestheticsaesthetics, aesthetic, beauty, beautiful, ugly
- mannersetiquette, manners, polite, rude, politeness
- unrefinedcrude, coarse, rough, unpolished, uncouth
- usage labelsformal, informal, archaic, obsolete, colloquial
vulgarrefined
Purified or cultured
elegant · tasteful · sophisticated · polished · cultivated
vulgararistocratic
Of hereditary nobility
noble · genteel · highborn · blue-blooded · wellborn
vulgardecent
Acceptably good
proper · decorous · polite · inoffensive · respectable
- vulgar languageCoarse or obscene speech
- vulgar humorComedy relying on indecency
- vulgar expressionsCoarse or indecent speech
divulge, vulgarity, vulgarism, vulgarian, vulgarly, vulgarize, vulgarisms, vulgarized, vulgarians