Crass

Quick meaning: Crass is an adjective meaning Coarse; crude; unrefined or insensitive; lacking discrimination or taste.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. Materialistic.
2. Physically dense or thick.
3. Lacking finesse; crude and obvious.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• crasser
• crassest

Synonyms for crass

Depending on context, synonyms include unrefined.

Antonyms for crass

Common opposites include delicate, sensitive, refined.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unrefined, crude, vile, rough, gross, coarse.

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