Sexual vs Vulgar - What's the difference?
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Of or relating to having sex, sexual acts and sexual reproduction.
Of or relating to gender.
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Of or relating to sexual orientations, sexual identity or preferences with respect to sexual intercourse
(biology) A species which reproduces by sexual rather than asexual reproduction, or a member of such a species.
(LGBT) A person who experiences attraction, a person who has interest in or desire for sex (especially as contrasted with an asexual).
Debased, uncouth, distasteful, obscene.
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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.
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* 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
Sexual is a related term of vulgar.
As adjectives the difference between sexual and vulgar
is that sexual is of or relating to having sex, sexual acts and sexual reproduction while vulgar is vulgar.As a noun sexual
is (biology) a species which reproduces by sexual rather than asexual reproduction, or a member of such a species.sexual
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Mark Tran
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- We don't often think of Jesus as a sexual' person, but He certainly was not asexual. He was not just God on earth. He was fully human and He was ' sexual , single, and celibate.
Derived terms
* nonsexual * sexuality * sexualism * sexually * sexual politics * subsexualSee also
*Noun
(en noun)Antonyms
* (biology) asexual * (person) asexualExternal links
* * ----vulgar
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Adjective
(en-adj)- It might be more useful to the English reader to write in our vulgar language.
- The mechanical process of multiplying books had brought the New Testament in the vulgar tongue within the reach of every class.
- 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.