What part of speech is vulgar?

Vulgar can be categorized as an adjective and a noun.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. vulgar is a noun, singular of vulgars.
  • 2. vulgar is an adjective.

Inflections

Noun

Adjective

Adjective to adverb

What does vulgar mean?

Definitions

Adjective

vulgar - 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"
vulgar - 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"
vulgar - 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"
vulgar - 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"

Noun

vulgar - One of the common people; a vulgar person.
vulgar - The vernacular, or common language.

Examples of vulgar

#   Sentence  
1. adj. Appealing to the vulgar taste for violence.
2. adj. The vulgar display of the newly rich.
3. adj. A vulgar and objectionable person.
4. adj. A vulgar gesture.
5. adj. Full of language so vulgar it should have been edited.
6. adj. The vulgar tongue of the masses.
7. adj. The technical and vulgar names for an animal species.
8. adj. He's misunderstood because of his vulgar language.
9. adj. She is extremely vulgar in her speech.
10. adj. I am fed up with his vulgar jokes.
11. adj. Tim produced a perfect alveolar trill for a straight minute. The rest of the Spanish class envied and despised this vulgar display of power.
12. adj. You want to learn Russian? But that's even more vulgar than French!
13. adj. People are too materialistic these days, in the vulgar, rather than the philosophical sense of the word.
14. adj. Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
15. adj. Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
16. noun Sir, when a woman has the gift of being silent, she has qualities above the vulgar.
Sentence  
adj.
Appealing to the vulgar taste for violence.
The vulgar display of the newly rich.
A vulgar and objectionable person.
A vulgar gesture.
Full of language so vulgar it should have been edited.
The vulgar tongue of the masses.
The technical and vulgar names for an animal species.
He's misunderstood because of his vulgar language.
She is extremely vulgar in her speech.
I am fed up with his vulgar jokes.
Tim produced a perfect alveolar trill for a straight minute. The rest of the Spanish class envied and despised this vulgar display of power.
You want to learn Russian? But that's even more vulgar than French!
People are too materialistic these days, in the vulgar, rather than the philosophical sense of the word.
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
noun
Sir, when a woman has the gift of being silent, she has qualities above the vulgar.

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