vulgarize

Meanings

Verb

• cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use
  • "Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors"
• debase and make vulgar
  • "The Press has vulgarized Love and Marriage"
• act in a vulgar manner
  • "The drunkard tends to vulgarize"
• To make vulgar.
• To make commonplace, crass, lewd.
• To make vulgar.
• To convert (religious rites) so as to use the vulgate (language of the commoners).

Synonyms

debase, dumb down, generalise, generalize, popularise, popularize, vulgarise

Antonyms

ennoble