crass
/kɹæs/
crass adjective: coarse; crude; unrefined or insensitive; lacking discrimination or taste.
Adjective
crass (comparative crasser, superlative crassest)
- 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.2002, Mike Tyson to the Media
- Materialistic.
- Physically dense or thick.
- 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.1895 July, Mark Twain, “Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses”, in North American Review
- One may very easily fall into mistakes and errors when one is searching into the hidden causes of things, in the absence of real experiments, and this is easily apparent from the crass error of Cardan; who deems himself to have discovered the distances of the centres of the cosmos and of the earth...1900, William Gilbert, chapter 11, in On the Magnet
crass meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
crass in Urdu
- بھدا, کھردرا, موٹا
crass in Malayalam
- പരുക്കനായ, തടിച്ച, ദൃഢമായ, മൂഢമായ
crass in Kannada
- ಪೆದ್ದು, ಮಂಕು, ಮುಟ್ಟಾಳ, ಹೆಡ್ಡ
Examples of crass in a sentence
- Most developers will be happy to create crass, misleading advertising, and it should be regulated.
- Do you really think your mom will eventually find your disgusting, crass comments hilarious?
- DB okay for one time laughs. at the crass, guttery humour.
Antonyms of crass
Forms of crass
| comparative | crasser |
|---|---|
| superlative | crassest |
Origin of crass
From Middle English cras, craas, from Old French cras, from Latin crassus (“dense, thick, gross, fat, heavy”). Doublet of grease.
Words formed from crass
Words that rhyme with crass
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- Corinthian brass
- cuirass
- en masse
- frass
- Lefkas
- madras
- morass
- Pendergrass
- volte-face
- wass
- world-class
- adder's grass
- alas
- asse
- bamboo grass
- chasse
- das
- dass
- dogtooth grass
- flyaway grass
- hey pass
- Inner Brass
- khalass
- khalassed
- lac
- lift pass
- low mass
- Neptune grass
- outclass
- Outer Brass
- Ratass
- rockmass
- saas
- shass
- tass
- tasse
- thass
- wassed
- wrasse
Questions about crass
- What does crass mean?
- Crass means coarse; crude; unrefined or insensitive; lacking discrimination or taste.
- What is crass in Urdu?
- Crass in Urdu is بھدا, کھردرا, موٹا. See Crass meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is crass?
- Crass is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce crass?
- Crass is pronounced /kɹæs/.
Words near crass in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: crass (page history and authors); crass (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); crass (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); crass (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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