crass

Meaning

1. Coarse; crude; unrefined or insensitive; lacking discrimination (in the third sense of the word).
2. Materialistic.
3. Dense.
4. Lacking finesse; crude and obvious.

Synonyms

thick

gross

coarse

rude

dense

clumpy

dull

ill-mannered

crude

rough

stupid

brash

brazen

brazen-faced

burly

clumsy

coarse-grained

dim

dumb

fathomless

fatuous

flagrant

foolish

idiotic

impudent

indecent

insolent

irreverent

lubberly

lumpen

lumpish

lumpy

moron

presumptuous

pursy

rank

raucous

rugged

sassy

scurrilous

shaggy

shocking

slapstick

spoony

stubbed

thickset

uncivil

uncultured

ungentlemanly

unrefined

vacuous

witless

agrestic

goofy

unhewn

large-grained

off-colour

rough-cut

undeferential

ungentlemanlike

abrasive

very dull-writted

abrupt

arrogant

barefaced

beefy

big

blocky

bluff

bottomless

bouncing

bourgeois

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kɹæs/

Etymology

From Middle English cras, craas, from Old French cras, from Latin crassus (“dense, thick, gross, fat, heavy”). Doublet of grease.