vulgar
adjective
1. lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
- appealing to the vulgar taste for violence
- the vulgar display of the newly rich
Similar word(s): unrefined, coarse, common, uncouth
2. of or associated with the great masses of people
- a vulgar and objectionable person
Similar word(s): lowborn, common, plebeian, unwashed
3. being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
- the vulgar tongue of the masses
- the technical and vulgar names for an animal species
Similar word(s): informal, common, vernacular
4. conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
- a vulgar gesture
- full of language so vulgar it should have been edited