| 单词 | vulgar |
| 释义 | vulgar (once / 278 pages) adj Someone who's vulgar has bad taste, and could also be called unrefined or unsophisticated. Your snobby neighbor might mutter about your family's vulgar taste if you paint your house with rainbow stripes. From the Latin vulgus, meaning "the common people," vulgar is an adjective that can describe anything from the sexually explicit to the merely ugly and crass. Many people believe that there's an important difference between things that are sexually frank and things that are vulgar. "Erotica" can be beautiful and even highbrow, while "pornography" is crude and vulgar. My friend Arnie loves the lights and glamour of Times Square, while Cintra finds all the bright-colored, corporate logos to be vulgar. WORD FAMILYvulgar: vulgarer, vulgarest, vulgarian, vulgarise, vulgarism, vulgarity, vulgarize, vulgarly+/vulgarian: vulgarians/vulgarisation: vulgarisations/vulgarise: vulgarisation, vulgarised, vulgariser, vulgarises, vulgarising/vulgarism: vulgarisms/vulgarity: vulgarities/vulgarization: vulgarizations/vulgarize: vulgarization, vulgarized, vulgarizer, vulgarizes, vulgarizing/vulgarizer: vulgarizers USAGE EXAMPLES“Vulgar taste,” Li Yaoyu, a Chinese veteran, later wrote of the movies. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) “But mostly I see my pictures as funny and, to use the most vulgar expression from the 21st-century art world, beautiful and romantic.” Time(Dec 30, 2016) "People think it’s bad, that it’s vulgar," said one club manager, who like most of those interviewed declined to be named. Los Angeles Times(Dec 27, 2016) 1adj of or associated with the great masses of people a vulgar and objectionable person Syn common, plebeian, unwashed lowborn of humble birth or origins 2adj being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language the vulgar tongue of the masses the technical and vulgar names for an animal species Syn common, vernacular informal used of spoken and written language 3adj lacking refinement or cultivation or taste appealing to the vulgar taste for violence the vulgar display of the newly rich Syn coarse, common, rough-cut, uncouth unrefined (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth 4adj conspicuously and tastelessly indecent a vulgar gesture full of language so vulgar it should have been edited Syn crude, earthy, gross indecent offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters |
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