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CRASS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does crass mean?
• CRASS (adjective)
The adjective CRASS has 1 sense:
1. (of persons) so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility
Familiarity information: CRASS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Comparative: crasser
Superlative: crassest
Superlative: crassest
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of persons) so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility
Similar:
unrefined ((used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth)
Derivation:
crassness (the quality of being crass--devoid of refinement)
Context examples
Damn them, all of them, the crass manikins!
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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