crass
English
/kɹæs/
adj
Definitions
- coarse; crude; unrefined or insensitive; lacking discrimination
- materialistic
- dense
- Lacking finesse; crude and obvious.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English cras derived from Old French cras derived from Latin crassus (thick, fat, stout, dense, solid, gross, heavy).
Origin
Latin
crassus
Gloss
thick, fat, stout, dense, solid, gross, heavy
Concept
Semantic Field
Spatial relations
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
厚
Emoji
🐻
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- crassly English
- crassness English
- *crassia Latin
- *grassia Latin
- *grassus Latin
- craspicis Latin
- crassiceps Latin
- crassidens Latin
- crassifico Latin
- crassifolius Latin
- crassimanus Latin
- crassirostris Latin
- crassisetus Latin
- crassitarsis Latin
- crassities Latin
- crassitudo Latin
- crassus Latin
- grassa Latin
- grassus Latin
- incrasso Latin
- krass German
- crasso Italian
- crasse French
- crassulescent French
- craso Spanish, Castilian
- krass Norwegian Bokmål
- crasso Portuguese
- krass Norwegian Nynorsk
- cras Middle English
- craisse Old French
- cras Old French
- graxa Galician
- ngrash Aromanian
- grass Romansh
- rassu Sicilian
- engrassur Dalmatian
- cartsus Old Latin