Meanings
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 - Lacking finesse; crude and obvious.
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.
2018 September 7, Tom English, “Scotland 0-4 Belgium”, in BBC Sport2 more examples
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 ReviewOne 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.
1900, William Gilbert, chapter 11, in On the Magnet
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveCoarse; crude; unrefined or insensitive; lacking discrimination or taste.
More synonyms by meaning
adjective(of persons) so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latincrassus“dense, thick, gross, fat, heavy”
- Old Frenchcras
- Middle Englishcras
- Englishcrass
From Middle English cras, craas, from Old French cras, from Latin crassus (“dense, thick, gross, fat, heavy”). Doublet of grease.
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian груб, нечувствителен
- груб (grub)coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
- нечувствителен (nečuvstvitelen)coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
Catalan cras, cras
- crascoarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
- crasdense
Czech hrubý, nehorázný
- hrubýcoarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
- nehoráznýcoarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
- bezohlednýcoarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
- neomalenýcoarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
- materialistickýmaterialistic
- přízemnímaterialistic
Danish kras
- krascoarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
Dutch grof, ruw
- grofcoarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
- ruwcoarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
- ongevoeligcoarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
- insensibelcoarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
- materialistischmaterialistic
- dichtdense
- opeengepaktdense
Finnish röyhkeä, karkea
- röyhkeäcoarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
- karkeacoarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
French grossier, grossière
- grossiercoarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
- grossièrecoarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
- crassecoarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
German krass, dicht
- krasscoarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
- dichtdense
Hungarian vaskos, durva
- vaskoscoarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
- durvacoarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
Irish garbh, gránna
- garbhcoarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
- gránnacoarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
- tútachcoarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
Italian grossolano
- grossolanocoarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
Māori tūhourangi
- tūhourangicoarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
Norwegian Bokmål krass
- krasscoarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
Polish chamski, prostacki
- chamskicoarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
- prostackicoarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
Portuguese crasso, grosseiro
- crassocoarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
- grosseirocoarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
Romanian cras, grosolan
- crascoarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
- grosolancoarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
- grosiercoarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
Russian гру́бый, приземлённый
- гру́бый (grúbyj)coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
- приземлённый (prizemljónnyj)materialistic
- материалисти́чный (materialistíčnyj)materialistic
- мерканти́льный (merkantílʹnyj)materialistic
- плотный (plotnyj)dense
Slovak hrubý, nízky
- hrubýcoarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
- nízkymaterialistic
- prízemnýmaterialistic
Spanish craso, grosero
- crasocoarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
- groserocoarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
- brutocoarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
- materialistamaterialistic
Swedish krass, krass
- krasscoarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
- krassmaterialistic
Turkish kaba, bayağı
- kabacoarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
- bayağıcoarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
Ukrainian грубий, тупий
- грубий (hrubyj)coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
- тупий (tupyj)coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with crass
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Cite this entry
crass. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crass
“crass.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crass. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “crass,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crass.
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