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| Main Entry: | vulgar |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rude, offensive |
| Synonyms: | X-rated*, base, blue*, boorish, cheap, coarse, common, contemptible, crude, dirty, disgusting, dishonorable, filthy, fractious, gross*, hard-core*, ignoble, impolite, improper, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, inferior, low, malicious, nasty, naughty, obscene, odious, off-color, profane, raw, repulsive, ribald, risqué, rough, scatological, slippery, smutty, sordid, suggestive, tasteless, tawdry, uncouth, unmannerly, unrefined, unworthy, villainous, sneaking, soft-core |
| Antonyms: | decent, inoffensive, nice, polite, refined |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vulgar |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | common, general |
| Synonyms: | colloquial, dime a dozen, everyday, familiar, low, native, ordinary, plastic, plebeian, popular, public, run-of-the-mill*, unrefined, vernacular, conversational, garden variety |
| Antonyms: | aesthetic, artistic, fashionable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | barbarian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, savage |
| Synonyms: | barbaric, barbarous, boorish, brutal, coarse, cruel, inhuman, merciless, primitive, rough, rude, uncivil, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unsophisticated, untamed, vicious, vulgar, wild, lowbrow, philistine |
| Antonyms: | civilized, cultured, educated, humane, kind, nice, polite, refined, sophisticated |
| Main Entry: | barbaric |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, savage |
| Synonyms: | barbarian, barbarous, boorish, brutal, coarse, cruel, fierce, graceless, inhuman, primitive, rough, rude, tasteless, uncivilized, uncouth, vulgar, wild, lowbrow |
| Notes: | barbaric pertains to crudeness and uncivility (based on Greek barbaros 'foreign'); barbarous pertains to cruelty, harshness, and immorality |
| Main Entry: | barbarous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, savage |
| Synonyms: | atrocious, barbarian, barbaric, brutal, coarse, cruel, ferocious, heartless, ignorant, inhuman, monstrous, primitive, rough, rude, ruthless, sadistic, truculent, uncivil, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, unsophisticated, vicious, vulgar, wicked, wild, brutish, inhumane, wolfish |
| Antonyms: | civilized, cultured, educated, kind, nice, polite, refined, sophisticated |
| Main Entry: | boorish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, awkward |
| Synonyms: | barbaric, cantankerous, churlish, clumsy, coarse, countrified, gross*, gruff, ill-mannered, impolite, loud, loutish, oafish, ornery, provincial, rough, rude, rustic, tasteless, ugly, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, uneducated, ungracious, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar, bad-mannered, bearish, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish, ill-bred, inurbane, lowbred, out-of-line, out-of-order, swinish, unpoised |
| Antonyms: | charming, cultured, exciting, polite, refined, sophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | carnal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | erotic, sensual |
| Synonyms: | animal, bodily, corporal, corporeal, earthly, fleshly, impure, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, licentious, lustful, physical, prurient, salacious, sensuous, temporal, voluptuous, vulgar, wanton, worldly, genital, unchaste, venereal |
| Antonyms: | chaste, clean, intellectual, pure, spiritual |
| Main Entry: | churlish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, boorish |
| Synonyms: | base, blunt, brusque, cantankerous*, crude, crusty, curt, discourteous, dour, grouchy, gruff, grumpy, harsh, ill-tempered, impolite, loutish, mean, miserly, morose, oafish, ornery*, rude, rustic, snippy*, sullen, surly, touchy*, ugly, uncivil, uncivilized, uncultured, unmannerly, unpolished, unsociable, vulgar, cloddish, clodhopping, crabbed, cussed, lowbred, unneighborly |
| Antonyms: | gentle, nice, pleasant, polite |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | crass |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | coarse, insensitive |
| Synonyms: | asinine, boorish, bovine, churlish, dense, gross, indelicate, inelegant, loutish, lumpish, oafish, obtuse, raw, rough, rude, stupid, uncouth, unrefined, vulgar, witless, Philistine, blundering, doltish, lowbrow |
| Antonyms: | careful, delicate, kind, nice, refined, sensitive, tactful |
| Main Entry: | disgusting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sickening; repulsive |
| Synonyms: | abominable, awful, beastly, cloying, creepy, detestable, distasteful, foul, frightful, ghastly, gross*, gruesome, hateful, hideous, icky*, loathsome, lousy, macabre, monstrous, nasty, nauseating, noisome, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, repellent, repugnant, revolting, rotten, scandalous, shameless, shocking, sleazy*, stinking, vile, vulgar, yucky*, grody, horrid, horrific, nerdy, satiating, scuzzy, sleazeball, surfeiting, yecchy |
| Antonyms: | attractive, desirous, pleasant, pleasing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flashy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flamboyant, in poor taste |
| Synonyms: | blatant, brazen, cheap, chintzy, flaunting, florid, garish, gaudy, glaring, glittering, jazzy*, loud, meretricious, ornate, ostentatious, showy, snazzy, sparkling, tacky*, tasteless, tawdry, vulgar, catchpenny, glittery, glitzy, tinsel |
| Antonyms: | plain, simple, subdued, tasteful, unobtrusive, unflamboyant, unflashy, ungaudy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | garish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flashy, tasteless |
| Synonyms: | blatant, brassy, brazen, cheap, chintzy, flaunting, gaudy, glaring, glittering, loud, meretricious, ornate, ostentatious, overdone, overwrought, raffish, showy, tawdry, vulgar, kitschy, screaming, tinsel |
| Antonyms: | discreet, modest, normal, plain, tasteful |
| Main Entry: | ignoble |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lowly, unworthy |
| Synonyms: | abject, base, coarse, common, contemptible, corrupt, craven, dastardly, degenerate, degraded, despicable, disgraceful, dishonorable, heinous, humble, infamous, inferior, lewd, low, mean, menial, modest, ordinary, peasant, petty, plain, plebeian, poor, rotten, servile, shabby, shameful, simple, sordid, vile, vulgar, wicked, wretched, wrong, baseborn, scurvy, unwashed |
| Antonyms: | dignified, grand, high, honorable, noble, reputable, respectable, worthy |
| Main Entry: | ill-mannered |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | badly behaved |
| Synonyms: | boorish, cheap, churlish, coarse, discourteous, disrespectful, impertinent, impolite, insolent, loud, loutish, raunchy*, raw, rough, roughneck*, rude, tacky*, uncivil, uncouth, ungracious, unmannerly, unrefined, vulgar, bad-mannered, ill-behaved, ill-bred, loud-mouthed |
| Antonyms: | mannered, mannerly, polite, behaved |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inelegant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clumsy, crude |
| Synonyms: | awkward, coarse, crass, gauche, graceless, gross, indelicate, labored, oafish, raw, rough, rude, stiff*, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, ungainly, ungraceful, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar, wooden* |
| Antonyms: | elegant, glamorous, graceful, refined, sophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lascivious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sexually aroused; displaying excessive interest in sex |
| Synonyms: | X-rated*, bawdy, blue, bodily, carnal, coarse, crude, evil-minded, fast*, fleshly, gross*, hard-core*, hot*, immoral, incontinent, indecent, lecherous, lewd, libertine, libidinous, licentious, lustful, nasty, obscene, off-color*, offensive, pornographic, prurient, randy, raunchy*, raw, ribald, rough, salacious, scurrilous, sensual, smutty*, steamy, suggestive, voluptuous, vulgar, wanton, low-down*, lubricious, orgiastic, soft-core, unchaste |
| Antonyms: | chaste, decent, moral |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | loutish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | boorish |
| Synonyms: | barbaric, bungling, cantankerous, churlish, clumsy, coarse, dense, gross*, gruff, ill-mannered, impolite, loud, oafish, ornery, rough, rude, rustic, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, uneducated, unmannerly, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar, bad-mannered, bearish, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish, doltish, ill-bred, swinish |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | off-color |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | risqué |
| Synonyms: | blue*, indelicate, purple*, racy*, salty*, shady, suggestive, vulgar, wicked |
| Antonyms: | clean, nice |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | opprobrious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abusive, hateful |
| Synonyms: | contemptuous, damaging, defamatory, despicable, disparaging, humiliating, injurious, insolent, insulting, invective, malevolent, malign, malignant, notorious, offensive, pejorative, scandalous, scurrilous, spiteful, truculent, vile, vitriolic, vulgar, abasing, calumniatory, contumelious, debasing, defaming, denigrating, depreciative, derogative, despiteful, detractive, disgracing, dishonoring, hurting, injuring, libeling, maligning, offending, reproaching, reviling, shaming, vituperative |
| Antonyms: | complimentary, flattering, kind, nice, praising |
| Main Entry: | ostentatious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flashy, showy |
| Synonyms: | boastful, chichi*, classy, conspicuous, crass*, dashing, egotistic, extravagant, flamboyant, flatulent, fussy, garish, gaudy, gay, grandiose, jaunty, loud, obtrusive, pompous, pretentious, spectacular, splashy, sporty, swanky*, theatrical, vain, vulgar, exhibitionistic, flaunted, glittery, highfaluting*, peacocky, splurgy, swank, tinsel*, tony, uptown |
| Antonyms: | modest, plain, quiet, reserved |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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