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crass

/kɹæs/

crass adjective: coarse; crude; unrefined or insensitive; lacking discrimination or taste.

Adjective

crass (comparative crasser, superlative 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.2002, Mike Tyson to the Media
  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.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.

All 24 example sentences with crass

Antonyms of crass

Forms of crass

comparativecrasser
superlativecrassest

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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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

  1. craspedophyllids
  2. craspedophyte
  3. craspedophytes
  4. craspedotal
  5. craspedote
  6. crass
  7. crassament
  8. crassamenta
  9. crassaments
  10. crassamentum
  11. crassatellid

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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