'Vulgarity' definitions:
Definition of 'vulgarity'
(from WordNet)
noun
The quality of lacking taste and refinement [syn: coarseness, commonness, grossness, vulgarity, vulgarism, raunch]
Definition of 'Vulgarity'
From: GCIDE
- Vulgarity \Vul*gar"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. vulgarit['e], L. vulgaritas the multitude.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The quality or state of being vulgar; mean condition of life; the state of the lower classes of society. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Grossness or clownishness of manners of language; absence of refinement; coarseness. [1913 Webster]
- The reprobate vulgarity of the frequenters of Bartholomew Fair. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'vulgarity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- bad manners,
- bad taste,
- barbarism,
- barbarousness,
- baseness,
- bombasticness,
- cacology,
- cacophony,
- caddishness,
- clumsiness,
- coarseness,
- crudeness,
- cumbrousness,
- deficiency,
- discourteousness,
- discourtesy,
- dysphemism,
- earthiness,
- failure,
- fewness,
- filthiness,
- foulness,
- frankness,
- gaucherie,
- Gothicism,
- gracelessness,
- gross behavior,
- grossness,
- harshness,
- heaviness,
- humbleness,
- ignobility,
- ill breeding,
- ill manners,
- ill-balanced sentences,
- imperfection,
- impoliteness,
- impropriety,
- impurity,
- inadequacy,
- incivility,
- incompetence,
- inconcinnity,
- inconsiderateness,
- incorrectness,
- indecorousness,
- indelicacy,
- inelegance,
- inelegancy,
- infelicity,
- insensitivity,
- insufficiency,
- inurbanity,
- lack of finish,
- lack of polish,
- lack of refinement,
- leadenness,
- lewdness,
- littleness,
- loutishness,
- maladroitness,
- mannerlessness,
- meanness,
- mediocrity,
- obscenity,
- offensiveness,
- pettiness,
- pompousness,
- ponderousness,
- poor diction,
- raciness,
- rankness,
- rawness,
- roughness,
- rudeness,
- saltiness,
- sesquipedalianism,
- sesquipedality,
- shabbiness,
- slipshod construction,
- smallness,
- spiciness,
- stiltedness,
- subnormality,
- tactlessness,
- tastelessness,
- tawdriness,
- triviality,
- turgidity,
- uncourtliness,
- uncouthness,
- uneuphoniousness,
- ungallantness,
- ungentlemanliness,
- ungracefulness,
- ungraciousness,
- unmannerliness,
- unpoliteness,
- unrefinement,
- unseemliness,
- unskillfulness,
- unsolicitousness,
- unsophistication,
- unwieldiness,
- vileness,
- vulgarism
Words containing 'Vulgarity'
- Vulgar,
- Vulgarism,
- Vulgarization,
- Vulgarize,
- Vulgarized,
- Vulgarizing,
- Vulgarly,
- Vulgarness,
- vulgarizer,
- Arisarum vulgare,
- Astrocaryum vulgare,
- Echium vulgare,
- Faeniculum vulgare,
- Helianthemum vulgare,
- Hordeum vulgare,
- Ligustrum vulgare,
- Marrubium vulgare,
- Origanum vulgare,
- Scolopendrium vulgare,
- Sorghum vulgare,
- Tanacetum vulgare,
- Triticum vulgare,
- Vulgar fraction,
- cirsium vulgare,
- clinopodium vulgare,
- foeniculum vulgare,
- leucanthemum vulgare,
- polypodium vulgare,
- vulgar language,
- vulgar latin,
- foeniculum vulgare dulce,
- sorghum vulgare caudatum,
- sorghum vulgare rosburghii,
- sorghum vulgare technicum,
- non-U vulgar