vulgarise

1. 1.

   cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use

   “They popularized coffee in Washington State”

   “Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors”

   Synonymspopularizepopularisevulgarizegeneralizegeneralise

   Broadercirculate
2. 2.

   debase and make vulgar

   “The Press has vulgarized Love and Marriage”

   Synonymsvulgarize

   Broaderchange
3. 3.

   act in a vulgar manner

   “The drunkard tends to vulgarize”

   Synonymsvulgarize

   Broaderact

Other forms of vulgarise

past tense

vulgarised·

present participle

vulgarising·

third person

vulgarises·

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.

Questions about vulgarise

What does vulgarise mean?

vulgarise means "cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in vulgarise?

vulgarise has 3 syllables: vul-ga-rise. The stress falls on "vul".

What is another word for vulgarise?

Close synonyms include popularize, popularise, vulgarize, generalize, generalise. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is vulgarise a common word?

vulgarise is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.