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vulgarer

vulgarer is the comparative form of vulgar.

Meaning of vulgar

Adjective

vulgar (comparative more vulgar or vulgarer, superlative most vulgar or vulgarest)

  1. Debased; uncouth; distasteful; obscene.
    • vulgar language
  2. (derogatory, historical) Having to do with ordinary, common people.
    • Near-synonyms: vulgate; vulgarized
  3. (especially) Common, usual; of the typical kind.
    • vulgar bush brown (Bicyclus vulgaris)
  4. Being a vulgar fraction.
    • A fraction is vulgar if it has one integer divided by another integer, as long as the integer that's doing the dividing isn't equal to zero.2022, Mary Jane Sterling, Algebra II All-in-One For Dummies, page 282

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Questions about vulgarer

What is vulgarer the comparative form of?
Vulgarer is the comparative form of vulgar.

Words near vulgarer in the dictionary

  1. Vulgar Era
  2. vulgar fraction
  3. vulgar fractions
  4. Vulgar Latin
  5. vulgar Marxism
  6. vulgarer
  7. vulgarest
  8. vulgarian
  9. vulgarians
  10. vulgarily
  11. vulgarisation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vulgarer (page history and authors); vulgar (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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