Vulgar Synonyms | Collins English Thesaurus

1 (adjective) in the sense of tasteless

showing lack of good taste, decency, or refinement

The decor is ugly, tasteless and vulgar.

Synonyms

tasteless

spectacularly tasteless objets d'art

common

flashy

a flashy sports car

low

That was a really low trick.

gross

That's a disgusting thing to say – you're so gross!

nasty

gaudy

a gaudy orange-and-purple hat

tawdry

tawdry jewellery

cheap and nasty

common as muck

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Opposites

elegant

tasteful

high-brow

classical

2 (adjective) in the sense of crude

showing lack of good taste, decency, or refinement

an oaf with a taste for racist and vulgar jokes

Synonyms

crude

a crude sense of humour

dirty

He laughed at their dirty jokes.

rude

He made a rude gesture with his finger.

low

The film's low comedy is never unlikeable.

blue

a secret stash of porn mags and blue movies

nasty

There's no need for such nasty language, young man.

naughty

a comedy routine crammed with naughty innuendo

coarse

He has a very coarse sense of humour.

indecent

She accused him of making indecent suggestions.

improper

Glover denied any improper behaviour with his wife's sister.

suggestive

A female employee claimed he made suggestive remarks to her.

tasteless

a tasteless remark

risqué

a cheeky comment or a risqué suggestion

off colour

ribald

her ribald comments about a guest's body language

indelicate

She could not touch upon such an indelicate subject.

indecorous

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3 (adjective) in the sense of uncouth

showing lack of good taste, decency, or refinement

He was a vulgar old man, but he never swore in front of women.

Synonyms

uncouth

that oafish, uncouth person

boorish

Crude was the word for him. Boorish.

unrefined

an unrefined boor

impolite

It would be most impolite to refuse a simple invitation to supper.

ill-bred

They seemed to her rather vulgar and ill-bred.

unmannerly

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Opposites

upper-class

4 (adjective) in the sense of vernacular

denoting a form of a language spoken by the ordinary people, rather than the literary form

translated from Latin into the vulgar tongue

Synonyms

vernacular

dialects such as black vernacular English

native

French is not my native tongue.

common

She might be a little common at times, but she was certainly not boring.

general

This book is intended for the general reader rather than the student.

ordinary

It was just an ordinary day for us.

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Quotation

It's worse than wicked, my dear, it's vulgar [Punch]

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in the sense of blue

pornographic

a secret stash of porn mags and blue movies

Synonyms

smutty,

dirty,

naughty,

obscene,

indecent,

vulgar,

lewd,

risqué,

X-rated (informal),

bawdy,

page-three,

near the knuckle (informal)

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in the sense of boorish

Crude was the word for him. Boorish.

Synonyms

loutish,

gross,

crude,

rude,

hick (informal, US, Canadian),

coarse,

vulgar,

rustic,

barbaric,

churlish,

uneducated,

bearish,

uncouth,

oafish,

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in the sense of coarse

unrefined or indecent

He has a very coarse sense of humour.

Synonyms

vulgar,

offensive,

rude,

indecent,

improper,

raunchy (slang),

earthy,

foul-mouthed,

bawdy,

impure,

smutty,

impolite,

ribald,

immodest,

indelicate

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Synonyms of 'vulgar'

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