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Licentious vs Vulgar - What's the difference?

licentious | vulgar | Related terms |

Licentious is a related term of vulgar.


As adjectives the difference between licentious and vulgar

is that licentious is lacking restraint, or ignoring societal standards, particularly in sexual conduct while vulgar is vulgar.

licentious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Lacking restraint, or ignoring societal standards, particularly in sexual conduct.
  • Disregarding accepted rules.
  • Derived terms

    * licentiousness

    See also

    * incontinent

    vulgar

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Debased, uncouth, distasteful, obscene.
  • * {{quote-book
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  • * The construction worker made a vulgar suggestion to the girls walking down the street.
  • (classical sense) Having to do with ordinary, common people.
  • * Bishop Fell
  • It might be more useful to the English reader to write in our vulgar language.
  • * Bancroft
  • The mechanical process of multiplying books had brought the New Testament in the vulgar tongue within the reach of every class.
  • * 1860 , G. Syffarth, "A Remarkable Seal in Dr. Abbott's Museum at New York", Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis? , age 265
  • 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.

    Synonyms

    * (obscene) inappropriate, obscene, debased, uncouth, offensive, ignoble, mean, profane * (ordinary) common, ordinary, popular

    Derived terms

    * (obscene) vulgarity * (ordinary) vulgar fraction, vulgate, Vulgate * vulgar fraction