Crass

Definition: Crass

Crass

Adjective

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "crass" was first used: 1545. (references)

Greatness

Goodly, noble, precious, mighty; sad, grave, heavy, serious; far gone, arrant, downright; utter, uttermost; crass, gross, arch, profound, intense, consummate; rank, uninitiated, red-hot, desperate; glaring, flagrant, stark staring; thorough-paced, thoroughgoing; roaring, thumping; extraordinary.; important; unsurpassed; (supreme); complete. august, grand, dignified, sublime, majestic; (repute).

Ignorance

Noun: ignorance, nescience, tabula rasa, crass ignorance, ignorance crasse; unfamiliarity, unacquaintance; unconsciousness; Adjective: darkness, blindness; incomprehension, inexperience, simplicity.

Books

• Crass Art and Other Pre Post-Modernist Monsters (reference)

• Nights of crass (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "crass": become less crass ♦ crass ignorance ♦ Crass quit. Additional references.

Albanian

i trashë (bearish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, deep, dense, dullish, dumb, dummy, fat, fatuous, fool, full-bodied, full-fed, gross, gruff, lardy, oafish, obese, obtuse, puddingy, purblind, ropy, rough and ready, round, roundabout, slapstick, slow witted, slowcoach, stupid, tactless, thick, uncouth, viscous, wooden, wooden-headed), i pagdhendur (artless, bearish, Hick, hillbilly, loutish, lowlife, oafish, raffish, rank, rough, uncouth, unhewn). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تام (blank, complete, entire, every, flat, gone, implicit, integral, outright, perfect, perfected, performed, plenary, pure, rank, regular, round, sound, thorough, thoroughgoing, unconditional, unequivocal, unqualified, utter, whole), ‏شديد (acute, biting, boisterous, brusque, cordial, dense, excruciating, extreme, forte, intense, intensive, keen, lusty, rigorous, shrill, stern, strong, telling, tempestuous, terrible, vehement, vicious, violent). (various references)

Bulgarian 

тъп (asinine, blunt, bovine, cloddish, dense, dim, dim witted, dopey, dopy, dull, dumb, gross, hollow, impenetrable, lumpish, muddle-headed, obtuse, opaque, puddingy, purblind, slow, sodden, stupid, thick, thick-headed, thick-witted, torpid, unpointed, wooden-headed), глупав (anserine, asinine, blackhearted, blithering, blockish, blunt, brainless, cockscomb, daft, dense, dim witted, dopey, dopy, dozy, fat, fatuous, flat-footed, fool, foolish, footless, footling, goofy, hebetate, inane, inept, irrational, lame brain, lumpish, lunatic, mindless, mutton-headed, nonsensical, off one's nut, piffling, puddingy, puerile, purblind, sappy, senseless, silly, simple, slow witted, stockish, stupid, thick, thick-skulled, thick-witted, tomfool, trumpery, unintelligent, unwise, vacant, vacuous, whacked, witless, wooden-headed). (various references)

Chinese 

鹵 (brine, halogen, salt), 魯 (place name), 粗鲁 (rude). (various references)

Czech

zabednìný (dense, thickheaded), hrubý (abusive, blue, boorish, brut, brutish, coarse, coarsened, crude, foul-mouthed, grating, gross, gruff, harsh, howling, knockabout, leathery, low, outrageous, raw, rough, rough and ready, ruddy, rude, rustic, scabrous, sylvan, uncouth, uneven, unmannerly, unprintable, vulgar). (various references)

Farsi 

کودن (Backward, Birdbrain, Cockeyed, Doddering, Dull, Dunce, Lug, Sappy, Slight, Slow, Unapt, Unintelligent), زمخت (Blowsy, Blowzy, Churlish, Clumsy, Coarse, Crude, Gross, Hard, Impolite, Raucous, Rough, Rude, Rugged, Tough), درشت (Abrupt, Brutish, Gross, Gruff, Harsh, Jumbo, Large, Lump, Rough, Sturdy). (various references)

French

crasse. (various references)

German

grob (abrupt, abusive, blunt, bluntly, bold, boorish, broad, broadly, coarse, coarsely, crude, dirty, earthy, glaring, gross, gruffly, harsh, heavy, rough, roughly, rude, rudely, rugged, tough, truculently, uncouth, unsubtle). (various references)

Greek 

μωρόσ (driveller, fatuous, food, fool, foolish, goofy, idiotic, moron, ninny, simp, simpleton, spoony, vacuous, witless, zany), παχυλόσ (thick), χονδρόσ (beefy, big, blocky, bluff, bouncing, burly, clumpy, clumsy, coarse, gristle, gross, lubberly, lumpish, lumpy, pursy, stubbed, thick, thickset), χονδροειδήσ (clumpy, rank, slap stick), απύθμενοσ (bottomless, fathomless). (various references)

Hungarian

vastag (bold, coarse, corpulent, dense, fat, gross, monumental ignorance, podgy, stiff, thick, to be in the chips), vaskos (buxom, chopping, chunky, fat, gross, stodgy, stout), súlyos (cumbersome, cumbrous, grievous, heavy, heavy weight, massive, massy, onerous, oppressive, ponderous, serious, weighty), durva (barbaric, broad, brusque, brutal, caddish, churlish, coarse, coarsened, crude, gross, harsh, hirsute, impious, insensible, offensive, ragged, ramage, Randy, robustic, rough, rude, scraggly, scraggy, scurrilous, stogy, uncouth). (various references)

Indonesian

canggung (awkward, clumsy, gauche, ill mannered), kasar (abrupt, abusive, artless, blunt, boorish, broad, brutal, brutish, crude, curt, disrespectful, gruff, menial, raw, rude, unkind, vulgar). (various references)

Italian

crasso, grossolano (chubby, coarse, common, dirty, earthy, gross, lowbrow, ungraceful). (various references)

Manx

jiarg- (arrant, egregious, gross, rank). (various references)

Pig Latin

asscray

Portuguese

crasso, grosso (bulky, chuckle, corpulent, fat, gross, thick), grosseiro (awkward, bearish, blanket, boorish, bumbling, caddish, churlish, cloddish, clownish, clumsy, coarse-grained, common, crude, cub, curmudgeon, curmudgeonly, earthy, gross, gruff, harsh, heavy-handed, hoggish, homely, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelaborate, joggly, lacerated, left-handed, lob, loutish, low-bred, lubberly, lumpish, piggish, ragged, ribald, rough, rude, rugged, scurrilous, surly, swinish, thick, uncivil, uncouth, uncultivated, unkind, unladylike, unmannerly, unparliamentary, untaught, vulgar, vulgarian, wooden), estúpido (addle-brained, addled, ass, blockhead, blockish, blunderer, blunderhead, boeotian, booby, bovine, chuckle-head, chump, dense, dim-witted, dolt, dull, dumb, dunce, dunderhead, fat-head, fatuous, featherbrained, fool, foolish, goofy, jolterhead, lubber, lubber-head, lubberly, lumpish, mindless, mutton-head, mutton-headed, numskull, oafish, obtuse, pigheaded, silly, slow, stock, stupe, stupid, thick-headed, thick-skulled, thick-witted, unintelligent, vacuous), espesso (bushy, concentrated, consistent, corpulent, dense, fat, rank, sticky, stiff, succulent, thick, thick-set, tufty), denso (close, compact, concentrated, consistent, dense, heavy, serried, solid, stiff, thick). (various references)

Romanian

cras, total (absolute, all out, blank, complete, completely, count, dead, entire, exclusive, gross, inclusive, outright, perfectly, quite, sum, thorough, total, totally, unmitigated, utter, utterly, whole, wholly), tâmpit (addle, addle-brained, asshole, awfully, blunt, brain-hampered, chucklehead, clod, daft, dense, dim, donkey, Dotty, duffer, dull, dumb, dumb bell, fiddling, fool, idiot, imbecile, jay, lubber-head, lunkhead, motherfucker, mutt, piffling, pillock, sap, shitass, squarehead, stupid, sucker), grosolan (boorish, broad, brutish, churlish, clumsy, coarse, coarsely, crude, currish, elephantine, flagrant, glaring, gross, grossly, homespun, ill bred, indecorous, indelicately, inurbane, large, loutish, oafish, rank, rough, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, trivial, unaccomplished, unmannerly, vulgar). (various references)

Russian 

грубый (bad, barbaric, barbarous, bearish, beastly, bestial, blunt, boeotian, boor, boorish, brusque, brutal, brute, brute-force, brutish, churlish, clownish, coarse, common, crude, curmudgeonly, currish, fresh, fulsome, gross, gross ear, gruff, hard bitten, hardhanded, harsh, heathenish, homespun, horny, ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-natured, jazz, larrikin, loutish, low down, low-lived, rank, raucous, raw, rawhide, ribald, robust, rough, rough and ready, rude, scratchy, scurrilous, uncivil, uncultivated, unfinished, unhewn, unmannerly, vulgar, woolly). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

potpun (absolute, complete, consummate, downright, outright, plenary, stark, thorough-paced, total, unmixed, utter, uttermost), krajnji (externally, extreme, furthermost, last, marginal, outermost, terminal, ultimate, ultra, utmost, uttermost). (various references)

Spanish

craso (fat, grievous, gross), tonto (ass, cabbagehead, calvish, clod-poll, crazed, cretin, dimwit, dink, dispensary, dummy, dunderhead, fool, foolish, greaseproof paper, harebrained, idiot, idiotic, idleheaded, jenny ass, lemon, loose, nonsensical, numbhead, pinhead, silly, simple minded, soft, soft-headed, soppy, spoony, stupid, unwise, wall eyed, witless), grosero (boorish, bounder, churl, coarse, double chin, earthy, foulmouthed, gross, impolite, lower, nasty, ripe, rough, roughly, rude, rudely, ruffian, scurrilous, uncouth, unpleasant, unsubtle), estúpido (addle-brained, addle-head, addle-pated, anserine, asinine, blockhead, blunderhead, bone head, brainless, coot, dense, dim witted, donkey, dull, dullard, idiot, idiotic, lame brain, lumpish, obtuse, rattle-brained, rattle-headed, senseless, soft, stupe, stupid). (various references)

Swedish

krass, grov (bearish, big, boeotian, coarse, coarse grained, crude, earthy, fulsome, gross, heavy, inelegant, large, rank, raw, rough, rough spoken, rude, thick), dum (addled, bird brained, blithering, daft, dense, doltish, dopey, dopy, dumb, empty headed, fatuous, fool, foolish, goofy, half-witted, idiotic, idle-headed, insensate, lumpish, nitwitted, oafish, opaque, phoney, rattle-brained, rattle-headed, rattle-pated, sappy, silly, stupid, witless). (various references)

Turkish

kaba (abrupt, barbarous, base, bearish, boorish, brusque, brutal, brutish, churlish, clodhopping, coarse, coarse grained, common, crude, discourteous, disobliging, disrespectful, doric, foul, graceless, gross, gruff, gutter, hard-hitting, harsh, heavy, hobnailed, hoggish, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelegant, loud, loutish, offhand, offhanded, ornery, puffy, rank, rough, rough-hewn, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, short-spoken, splay, swinish, tactless, unceremonious, unchivalrous, uncivil, uncomplaisant, uncomplimentary, uncouth, underbred, unfinished, ungainly, ungalant, ungentle, ungentlemanlike, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, ungracious, unmannerly, unparliamentary, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar), hissiz (apathetic, apathetical, benumbed, bloodless, callous, cruel, devoid of feelings, dispassionate, down to earth, impassible, impassive, indifferent, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insusceptible, numb, senseless, soulless, torpid), dangalak (bonehead, bone-headed, boob, bumpkin, half-witted), bön (dewy-eyed, gullible, lummox, naïf, naïve, vacant), ahmak (addled, ass, blockhead, boob, bumpkin, cabbagehead, chucklehead, chumpish, clot, country bumpkin, cretin, deadly dull, dimwitted, dolt, doltish, dreary, dullish, dumb bell, dunderhead, dunderheaded, fathead, fool, foolish, gander, gawk, gawky, goat, goof, goose, greenhorn, Gubbins, half wit, half-witted, hayseed, idiot, jackass, jerk, josser, kookaburra, light in the head, loon, lummox, lump, muggins, mutt, mutton head, noddy, numskull, prune, pudding-head, sap, saphead, sappy, schlepper, simp, soft, stupid, twerp). (various references)

Ukrainian

цупкий, цілковитий (absolute, abysmal, all out, dense, exquisite, orbicular, out and out, outright, pure, right-down, teetotal), грубий (abrupt, artless, barbaresque, barbaric, base, bearish, boarish, broad, brusque, brute, caddish, chuffy, churlish, clownish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, crude, gross, hard boiled, homely, ill bred, knockabout, offhand, plebeian, primitive, ribald, rough, rough spoken, rude, scratchy, shaggy, surly, swinish, truculent, uncouth), несосвітенно дурний, повний (absolute, all out, big, broad, chock-a-block, complete, definitive, entire, fatty, flush, full, integral, orbicular, out and out, outright, overall, overblown, perfect, plenary, profound, pudgy, pure, rotund, round, total, utter, whole). (various references)

Vietnamese 

dốt đặc, d� y đặc; thô thô bỉ đần độn, đặc (compact, consistent, unmitigated). (various references)

crassus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "crass": crasser, crassest, crassitude, crassitudes, crassly, crassness, crassnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Crass" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acrass, carass, ciass, corsas, crans, cras, crassa, crasy, Crays, Cres, Cressa, cris, criss, csars, curaiss, frass, Kraiss, kras, Krass, kriss, mrass, rass, Rcas, wrass. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: scars.

-1 letter: arcs, cars, sacs, scar.

-2 letters: arc, ars, ass, car, ras, sac.

-3 letters: ar, as.

+1 letter: across, caress, carses, crases, crasis, crissa, escars, scares, scarfs, scarps, scarts, scaurs, scrags, scrams, scraps, seracs.

+2 letters: actress, ancress, arcuses, ascaris, caesars, carcass, carless, caserns, casters, castors, causers, cesuras, chasers, classer, corsacs, costars, crashes, crasser, crassly, creases, crissal, cuirass, escarps, eschars, lascars, parsecs, racisms, racists, rascals, recasts, sackers, sacrals, sacrist, sacrums, sarcasm, sarcous, saucers, scalars, scalers, scarabs, scarers, scarphs, scarves, scleras, scrapes, scrawls, screaks, screams, secpars, soucars, sowcars, spacers, sucrase.