vulgarizer
- noun
- /ˈvʌlɡəraɪzər/
:
popularizador
- As a vulgarizer, he translated complex scientific concepts into language everyone could understand.
Examples
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The author became a vulgarizer of classical literature, making it enjoyable for young readers.
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Many educators see the role of a vulgarizer as essential in bringing art to a broader audience.
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As for those who could not or would not undergo this process of scholarly training, they were reduced to the status of popularizers, storytellers, entertainers, gossip mongers, and sometimes vulgarizers.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
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5.5
A person who makes a subject easy to understand for many people
A person or thing that makes access to something fairer for many people
A person or group who makes something known to many people to promote it
Antonyms
- Specialized
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5.6
A person or company that cleans and improves things like oil, sugar and metals by removing unwanted parts
How Accessible
73
3.0
1
3.9
126
2.7
352
3.9
58
5.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Vulgarizer comes from the Latin words vulgus 'the people' and vulgaris 'common'. A helpful way to remember the positive sense is that a vulgarizer makes things 'for the people' by simplifying hard ideas so they become popular and easy to understand.