vulgarian

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
18
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/vʌlˈɡɛəɹi.ən/

Definition of vulgarian

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. 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...”
    “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 should be accounted the very calamity and shipwreck of a higher education.”
    “She is a bitch in heat, a mindless grinning vulgarian, and a shrewd and desperate schemer all at once.”
    “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.”
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noun

  1. 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...”
    “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 should be accounted the very calamity and shipwreck of a higher education.”
    “She is a bitch in heat, a mindless grinning vulgarian, and a shrewd and desperate schemer all at once.”
    “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.”

adj

  1. Having the characteristics of a vulgarian, vulgar.
    “Your vulgarian friend is downstairs, denting innocent people's fenders.”

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Etymology

From vulgar + -ian. Compare Late Latin vulgārius, Latin vulgāris.

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