vulgarize

Other forms of vulgarize

past tense

vulgarized·

present participle

vulgarizing·

third person

vulgarizes·

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 vulgarize

What does vulgarize mean?

vulgarize 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 vulgarize?

vulgarize has 3 syllables: vul-ga-rize. The stress falls on "vul".

What is another word for vulgarize?

Close synonyms include popularize, popularise, vulgarise, 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 vulgarize a common word?

vulgarize 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.