"crass" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /kɹæs/, /kɹɑːs/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-crass.wav Forms: crasser [comparative], crassest [superlative]
Rhymes: -æs Etymology: From Middle English cras, craas, from Old French cras, from Latin crassus (“dense, thick, gross, fat, heavy”). Doublet of grease. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|cras}} Middle English cras, {{der|en|fro|cras}} Old French cras, {{der|en|la|crassus|t=dense, thick, gross, fat, heavy}} Latin crassus (“dense, thick, gross, fat, heavy”), {{doublet|en|grease}} Doublet of grease Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} crass (comparative crasser, superlative crassest)
  1. Coarse; crude; unrefined or insensitive; lacking discrimination (in the third sense of the word). Translations (coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive): груб (grub) (Bulgarian), нечувствителен (nečuvstvitelen) (Bulgarian), cras (Catalan), grof (Dutch), ruw (Dutch), ongevoelig (Dutch), insensibel (Dutch), röyhkeä (Finnish), karkea (Finnish), grossier [masculine] (French), grossière [feminine] (French), crasse [feminine, masculine] (French), krass (German), vaskos (Hungarian), durva (Hungarian), garbh (Irish), gránna (Irish), tútach (Irish), grossolano (Italian), tūhourangi (Maori), krass (Norwegian Bokmål), krass (Norwegian Nynorsk), chamski (Polish), prostacki (Polish), crasso [masculine] (Portuguese), grosseiro [masculine] (Portuguese), cras (Romanian), grosolan (Romanian), grosier (Romanian), гру́бый (grúbyj) (Russian), grub (Serbo-Croatian), hrubý [masculine] (Slovak), craso (Spanish), grosero (Spanish), bruto (Spanish), krass (Swedish), грубий (hrubyj) [masculine] (Ukrainian), тупий (tupyj) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
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  2. Materialistic. Translations (materialistic): materialistisch (Dutch), приземлённый (prizemljónnyj) (Russian), материалисти́чный (materialistíčnyj) (Russian), мерканти́льный (merkantílʹnyj) (Russian), prizeman (Serbo-Croatian), nízky [masculine] (Slovak), prízemný [masculine] (Slovak), materialista (Spanish), krass (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-crass-en-adj-dkjyM60G Disambiguation of 'materialistic': 4 93 1 2
  3. Dense. Translations (dense): cras (Catalan), dicht (Dutch), opeengepakt (Dutch), dicht (German), плотный (plotnyj) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-crass-en-adj-XYdwYjIj Disambiguation of 'dense': 4 1 95 1
  4. Lacking finesse; crude and obvious.
    Sense id: en-crass-en-adj-BZeNvzsB
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: crassly, crassness

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2002, Mike Tyson to the Media:",
          "text": "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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          "ref": "1895 July, Mark Twain, “Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses”, in North American Review:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1900, William Gilbert, chapter 11, in On the Magnet:",
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    "Terms with Catalan translations",
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    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Irish translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Maori translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Romanian translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
    "Terms with Slovak translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
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      "glosses": [
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          "ref": "1895 July, Mark Twain, “Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses”, in North American Review:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1900, William Gilbert, chapter 11, in On the Magnet:",
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        {
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          "text": "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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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "grub",
      "sense": "coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive",
      "word": "груб"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "nečuvstvitelen",
      "sense": "coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive",
      "word": "нечувствителен"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive",
      "word": "cras"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive",
      "word": "grof"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive",
      "word": "ruw"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive",
      "word": "ongevoelig"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive",
      "word": "insensibel"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive",
      "word": "röyhkeä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive",
      "word": "karkea"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "grossier"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "grossière"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "crasse"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive",
      "word": "krass"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive",
      "word": "vaskos"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive",
      "word": "durva"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive",
      "word": "garbh"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive",
      "word": "gránna"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive",
      "word": "tútach"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive",
      "word": "grossolano"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive",
      "word": "tūhourangi"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive",
      "word": "krass"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive",
      "word": "krass"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive",
      "word": "chamski"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive",
      "word": "prostacki"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "crasso"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "grosseiro"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive",
      "word": "cras"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive",
      "word": "grosolan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive",
      "word": "grosier"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "grúbyj",
      "sense": "coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive",
      "word": "гру́бый"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive",
      "word": "grub"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hrubý"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive",
      "word": "craso"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive",
      "word": "grosero"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive",
      "word": "bruto"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive",
      "word": "krass"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "hrubyj",
      "sense": "coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "грубий"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "tupyj",
      "sense": "coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "тупий"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "materialistic",
      "word": "materialistisch"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "prizemljónnyj",
      "sense": "materialistic",
      "word": "приземлённый"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "materialistíčnyj",
      "sense": "materialistic",
      "word": "материалисти́чный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "merkantílʹnyj",
      "sense": "materialistic",
      "word": "мерканти́льный"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "materialistic",
      "word": "prizeman"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "materialistic",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "nízky"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "materialistic",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "prízemný"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "materialistic",
      "word": "materialista"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "materialistic",
      "word": "krass"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "dense",
      "word": "cras"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "dense",
      "word": "dicht"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "dense",
      "word": "opeengepakt"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "dense",
      "word": "dicht"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "plotnyj",
      "sense": "dense",
      "word": "плотный"
    }
  ],
  "word": "crass"
}

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