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crass

adj
/kɹæs/

Etymology

From Middle English cras, craas, from Old French cras, from Latin crassus (“dense, thick, gross, fat, heavy”). Doublet of grease.

  1. derived from crassus — “dense, thick, gross, fat, heavy”
  2. derived from cras
  3. inherited from cras

Definitions

  1. Coarse

    Coarse; crude; unrefined or insensitive; lacking discrimination or taste.

    • You guys would rather be with someone else who’s equal to your status in life. Tiger Woods, or somebody. I comes across as crass, a Neanderthal, a babbling idiot sometimes. I like to show you that person. I like that person.

  2. Materialistic.

  3. Physically dense or thick.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Lacking finesse

      Lacking finesse; crude and obvious.

      • 8. They require that crass stupidities shall not be played upon the reader as “the craft of the woodsman, the delicate art of the forest,” by either the author or the people in the tale.
      • The Albanians have a world ranking of 58, but even a side of fairly modest talents would surely have taken advantage of the kind of crass mistakes that Scotland made on Friday.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for crass. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA