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Definition of crass adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

crass

adjective
 
/kræs/
 
/kræs/
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  1. very stupid and showing no sympathy or understanding synonym insensitive
    • the crass questions some disabled people get asked
    • an act of crass (= great) stupidity
    • I thought his comments were somewhat crass.
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryCrass is used with these nouns:
    • insensitivity
    • stupidity
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    Word Originlate 15th cent. (in the sense ‘dense or coarse’): from Latin crassus ‘solid, thick’.
See crass in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
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