crass
adjective/kræs/
/kræs/
- 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
Word Originlate 15th cent. (in the sense ‘dense or coarse’): from Latin crassus ‘solid, thick’.Definitions on the go
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