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say it: VUHL-gur
vulgar is an adjective meaning "lacking refinement or cultivation or taste". It is pronounced /ˈvʌlɡɚ/ — VUHL-gur. It carries 4 recorded senses.
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”
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for vulgar come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.