Meaning

4 senses

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

    krass

    гру́быйgrúbyj

    грубийhrubyj, тупийtupyj

    (of persons) so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility

  2. Materialistic.

    приземлённыйprizemljónnyj, материалисти́чныйmaterialistíčnyj, мерканти́льныйmerkantílʹnyj

  3. Physically dense or thick.

    dicht

    плотныйplotnyj

  4. Lacking finesse; crude and obvious.

Examples

4 sentences

  1. Don't be so crass.

    ruНе будь таким бестолковым. — shanghainese

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  2. I'm sick of your crass hints.

    ruМне надоели ваши грубые намёки. — marafon

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  3. Tom's boss's behaviour smacked of crass arrogance.

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  4. You want real punk? Listen to Crass.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive:
Русский
By meaning 3
coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive:
materialistic:
dense:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive:
dense:

Origin

From Middle English cras, craas, from Old French cras, from Latin crassus (“dense, thick,

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

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Forms

crasser, crassest
Comparativecrasser Lesson
Superlativecrassest Lesson

regular

Antonyms

3 antonyms
delicateB1sensitiveB2refined

Word family

2 related words
Relatedcrassness
Derivedcrassly

Lessons for this word

2 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
crappycrashB1cratecraterB2
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