vulgarian
/vʌlˈɡɛəɹi.ən/US/vʌlˈɡɛəɹi.ən/
vulgarian noun: a vulgar individual, especially one who emphasizes or is oblivious to his or her vulgar qualities.
Noun
vulgarian (plural vulgarians)
- A vulgar individual, especially one who emphasizes or is oblivious to his or her vulgar qualities.
- He was by this time on the deck, but he had the art to be quite unapproachable; the friendliest vulgarian, three parts drunk, would have known better than take liberties...1894, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Ebb-Tide
- But to have spent one's youth at college, in contact with the choice and rare and precious, and yet still to be a blind prig or vulgarian, unable to scent out human excellence or to divine it amid its accidents, to know it only when ticketed and labeled and forced on us by others, this indeed...1907, William James, Social Value of the College-Bred
Adjective
vulgarian (comparative more vulgarian, superlative most vulgarian)
- Having the characteristics of a vulgarian, vulgar.
- Your vulgarian friend is downstairs, denting innocent people's fenders.1986, Tim Kazurinsky, Denise DeClue, About Last Night, spoken by Joan (Elizabeth Perkins)
vulgarian meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Indonesian and Persian
vulgarian in Hindi
- vulgar individual
- नौबढ़ naubaṛh
vulgarian in Tamil
- நாகரிகம் அற்றவர்
vulgarian in Indonesian
- vulgar individual
- orang yg bertingkah laku kasar
vulgarian in Persian
- vulgar individual
- ادم عامی و پست, ادم عوام
More languagesFewer languages
- vulgarian in Thai
- คนสามหาว khn s̄āmh̄āw, คนหยาบคาย khn h̄yābkhāy, คนต่ำช้า khn t̀ảcĥā
- vulgarian in Vietnamese
- người tầm thường, người thường
Examples of vulgarian in a sentence
- She is a bitch in heat, a mindless grinning vulgarian, and a shrewd and desperate schemer all at once.1976 April 26, Rob Schmeider, “Entertaining Mr. Sloane (review)”, in Gay Community News, page 21:
- Leading the attack on the president's very citizenship is the professional vulgarian Donald Trump, who gets away with the kind of preposterous, race-based comments granted few black public figures.2014 December 4, Timothy Egan, “A deficit of dignity”, in The New York Times:
Forms of vulgarian
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | vulgarians |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more vulgarian |
| superlative | most vulgarian |
Origin of vulgarian
From vulgar + -ian. Compare Late Latin vulgārius, Latin vulgāris.
Words that rhyme with vulgarian
Questions about vulgarian
- What does vulgarian mean?
- Vulgarian means a vulgar individual, especially one who emphasizes or is oblivious to his or her vulgar qualities.
- What is vulgarian in Hindi?
- Vulgarian in Hindi is नौबढ़ (naubaṛh). See Vulgarian meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use vulgarian in a sentence?
- She is a bitch in heat, a mindless grinning vulgarian, and a shrewd and desperate schemer all at once.
- What part of speech is vulgarian?
- Vulgarian can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce vulgarian?
- Vulgarian is pronounced /vʌlˈɡɛəɹi.ən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of vulgarian?
- The plural of vulgarian is vulgarians.
Words near vulgarian in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: vulgarian (page history and authors); vulgarian (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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