verb
Meaning 1
To make vulgar.
To make commonplace, crass, lewd.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
vulgarize
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verb
Meaning 2
To make vulgar.
To convert (religious rites) so as to use the vulgate (language of the commoners).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
act in a vulgar manner
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The drunkard tends to vulgarize
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: vulgarise
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: act, behave, do
verb
Meaning 4
debase and make vulgar
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The Press has vulgarized Love and Marriage
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: vulgarise
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change, alter, modify
verb
Meaning 5
cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- They popularized coffee in Washington State
- Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: popularize, popularise, vulgarise, generalize, generalise
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: circulate, circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, disperse, pass around
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English vulgar Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English vulgarize From vulgar + -ize.
Across languages
Translations
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: vulgaaristaa — To make something vulgar
- French: vulgariser — To make something vulgar
- Georgian: გავულგარულება (gavulgaruleba) — To make something vulgar
- Georgian: გაუხამსება (gauxamseba) — To make something vulgar
- Greek: εκχυδαΐζω (ekchydaḯzo) — To make something vulgar
- Interlingua: vulgarisar — To make something vulgar
- Italian: volgarizzare — To make something vulgar
- Spanish: vulgarizar — To make something vulgar