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Vulgar vs Peasantlike - What's the difference?

vulgar | peasantlike | Related terms |

Vulgar is a related term of peasantlike.


As adjectives the difference between vulgar and peasantlike

is that vulgar is vulgar while peasantlike is resembling or characteristic of a peasant.

vulgar

English

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.

    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

    peasantlike

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling or characteristic of a peasant.