Adjective

(en adjective)

Very specific, clear, or detailed.

I gave explicit instructions for him to stay here, but he followed me, anyway.

(euphemism) Containing material (e.g. language or film footage) that might be deemed offensive or graphic.

The film had several scenes including explicit language and sex.

(obsolete)

Adjective

(en-adj)

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.

* 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.