vulgar – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of vulgar

Adjective: vulgar

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Comparativevulgarer
Superlativevulgarest

Perifrastic

Comparativemore vulgar
Superlativemost vulgar

Sample Sentences

  • vulgar language
  • vulgar words
  • a truly vulgar showing of affection
  • vulgar and highly distressing scenes
  • Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber. [1551, James A.H. Murray, editor, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society., volume 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1888, Part 1, page 217:]
  • And, placed discreetly among these commonplaces, a few pieces of genuine quality, bizarrely distinguished by craftsmanship from the vulgar products of the machine. [1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 150:]
  • Several years ago I interviewed the CEO of a car manufacturer whose products start in the six figures. He told me his customers could always afford to buy his cars, but in recessions they found it vulgar to do so. [2023 May 28, Robert Armstrong, “The world wobbles; the luxury industry strides on”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 21:]
  • Near-synonyms: vulgate; vulgarized
  • It might be more useful to the English reader […] to write in our vulgar language. [1661, John Fell, The Life of Dr. Hammond:]
  • The mechanical process of multiplying books had brought the New Testament in the vulgar tongue within the reach of every class. [1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC:]
  • Further, the same sacred name in other monuments precedes the vulgar name of King Takellothis, the sixth of the XXII. Dyn., as we have seen. [1860, G. Syffarth, “A Remarkable Seal in Dr. Abbott's Museum at New York”, in Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, page 265:]
  • vulgar bush brown (Bicyclus vulgaris)
  • A vulture (V. aura), probably the Acabiry first described by Azara, is here called […] the hunter. It resembles in form the vulgar bird, but it flies high. The head is red, and the wings are black with silver lining, like the noble Bateleur of Africa. [1869, Richard Francis Burton, The Highlands of the Brazil, page 85:]
  • 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:]

Adjectives inflected like vulgar

wholsom, seldom, scared, solemn, silent, beloved, uptight, perfect, useless, up-tight, selfish, distinct, discreet, Dutch, reckless, bumfuck, worthless, slender, faithfull, shallow, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)

Etymology

From Middle English vulgare, from Latin vulgāris, from volgus, vulgus (“mob; common folk”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH-. Compare Welsh gwala (“plenty, sufficiency”), Ancient Greek ἁλία (halía, “assembly”), εἰλέω (eiléō, “to compress”), Old Church Slavonic великъ (velikŭ, “great”). See: Latin Adjectives 'vulgāris'.

Verbs referencing "vulgar"

Finnish Adjectives vulgaari, Finnish Adjectives vulgaarinen.