Word Meanings - VULGARISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Grossness; rudeness; vulgarity. 2. A vulgar phrase or expression. A fastidious taste will find offense in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call "slang," which not a few of our writers seem to have affected. Coleridge.

Related words: (words related to VULGARISM)

• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• SLANGINESS
  Quality of being slangy.
• OCCASIONALISM
  The system of occasional causes; -- a name given to certain theories of the Cartesian school of philosophers, as to the intervention of the First Cause, by which they account for the apparent reciprocal action of the soul and the body.
• OFFENSELESS
  Unoffending; inoffensive.
• AFFECTION
  Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
• AFFECTIBILITY
  The quality or state of being affectible.
• AFFECTIVELY
  In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• AFFECTIONED
  1. Disposed. Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10. 2. Affected; conceited. Shak.
• AFFECTER
  One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after. "Affecters of wit." Abp. Secker.
• AFFECTIVE
  1. Tending to affect; affecting. Burnet. 2. Pertaining to or exciting emotion; affectional; emotional. Rogers.
• AFFECTIONATED
  Disposed; inclined. Affectionated to the people. Holinshed.
• AFFECTIONATE
  1. Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother. 2. Kindly inclined; zealous. Johson. Man, in his love God, and desire to please him, can never be too affectionate. Sprat. 3. Proceeding from affection; indicating
• OFFENSEFUL
  Causing offense; displeasing; wrong; as, an offenseful act.
• VULGARIZATION
  The act or process of making vulgar, or common.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• AFFECTEDLY
  1. In an affected manner; hypocritically; with more show than reality. 2. Lovingly; with tender care. Shak.
• AFFECTEDNESS
  Affectation.
• TASTE
  by the touch, to try, to taste, LL. taxitare, fr. L. taxare 1. To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow. Chapman. Taste it well and stone thou shalt it find. Chaucer. 2. To try by the touch of the tongue; to perceive the relish
• FASTIDIOUS
  Difficult to please; delicate to fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite. Proud youth ! fastidious of the lower world. Young. Syn. -- Squeamish; critical; overnice; difficult; punctilious. --
• OVERAFFECT
  To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
• MISAFFECT
  To dislike.
• INAFFECTED
  Unaffected. -- In`af*fect"ed*ly, adv.
• MISAFFECTED
  Ill disposed.
• DEVULGARIZE
  To free from what is vulgar, common, or narrow. Shakespeare and Plutarch's "Lives" are very devulgarizing books. E. A. Abbott.
• ATTASTE
  To taste or cause to taste. Chaucer.
• MISAFFECTION
  An evil or wrong affection; the state of being ill affected. Bp. Hall.