crass

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
8
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/kɹæs/
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/kɹæs/ · /kɹɑːs/

Definition of crass

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  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.”
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adj

  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.”
  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.”
    “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 through a variation of the magnetick iron of 9 degrees.”
    “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.”

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Etymology

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

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