crass

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crass

  • /kɹæs/
  • /kɹɑːs/

Rhymes with -æs

Where it comes from

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

adjective crasser · crassest

  1. 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.

    Opposite: delicate, sensitive, refined

  2. Materialistic.
  3. Physically dense or thick.
  4. 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.

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adj coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive

Españolcraso, grosero, bruto
Portuguêscrasso, grosseiro
Françaisgrossier, grossière, crasse
Deutschkrass
Italianogrossolano
Românăcras, grosolan, grosier
Русскийгру́бый grúbyj

adj materialistic

Españolmaterialista
Русскийприземлённый prizemljónnyj, материалисти́чный materialistíčnyj, мерканти́льный merkantílʹnyj

adj dense

Deutschdicht
Русскийплотный plotnyj

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@misc{crass_2026,
  title = {crass},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/crass},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}