The difference between Uncouth and Vulgar

When used as adjectives, uncouth means unfamiliar, strange, foreign, whereas vulgar means debased, uncouth, distasteful, obscene.


Vulgar is also noun with the meaning: a common, ordinary person.

check bellow for the other definitions of Uncouth and Vulgar

  1. Uncouth as an adjective (archaic):

    Unfamiliar, strange, foreign.

  2. Uncouth as an adjective:

    Clumsy, awkward.

  3. Uncouth as an adjective:

    Unrefined, crude.

  1. Vulgar as an adjective:

    Debased, uncouth, distasteful, obscene.

  2. Vulgar as an adjective (classical sense):

    Having to do with ordinary, common people.

  1. Vulgar as a noun (classicism):

    A common, ordinary person.