crass

• POS: Adjective

CIDE DICTIONARY

crass, a. [L. crassus thick, fat, gross, prob. orig., closely woven. See Grease animal fat, and cf. Crate, Hurdle.].

 Gross; thick; dense; coarse; not elaborated or refined.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

crass, adj.
1 grossly stupid (a crass idea).
2 gross (crass stupidity).
3 literary thick or gross.

Derivative

crassitude n. crassly adv. crassness n.

Etymology

L crassus solid, thick

THESAURUS

crass

Boeotian, absolute, arrant, asinine, beef-brained, beef-witted, blockish, bovine, broad-bodied, bulky, bullnecked, chumpish, churlish, classical, cloddish, coarse, complete, consummate, corpulent, cowish, crude, decided, definitive, dense, doltish, downright, dullard, dumb, duncical, duncish, earthy, egregious, fat, flagrant, full, full-bodied, gaudy, glaring, gross, heavy, heavyset, ineducable, inelegant, intolerable, klutzy, loud, loutish, lumpish, massive, meretricious, oafish, obscene, opaque, out-and-out, outright, perfect, positive, precious, profound, pronounced, proper, rank, raw, regular, ribald, rough, rude, shattering, shocking, sottish, stark, stark-staring, stupid, superlative, surpassing, the veriest, thick, thick-bodied, thickset, thorough, thoroughgoing, three-dimensional, total, unbearable, unconscionable, uncouth, undeniable, unequivocal, unmitigated, unqualified, unrefined, unrelieved, unspoiled, unteachable, utter, viscous, vulgar, wrongheaded

ROGET THESAURUS

crass

Greatness

N greatness, magnitude, size, multitude, immensity, enormity, infinity, might, strength, intensity, fullness, importance, great quantity, quantity, deal, power, sight, pot, volume, world, mass, heap, stock, peck, bushel, load, cargo, cartload, wagonload, shipload, flood, spring tide, abundance, principal part, chief part, main part, greater part, major part, best part, essential part, bulk, mass, great, greater, large, considerable, fair, above par, big, huge, Herculean, cyclopean, ample, abundant, full, intense, strong, sound, passing, heavy, plenary, deep, high, signal, at its height, in the zenith, world-wide, widespread, far-famed, extensive, wholesale, many, goodly, noble, precious, mighty, sad, grave, heavy, serious, far gone, arrant, downright, utter, uttermost, crass, gross, arch, profound, intense, consummate, rank, uninitiated, red-hot, desperate, glaring, flagrant, stark staring, thorough-paced, thoroughgoing, roaring, thumping, extraordinary, important, unsurpassed, complete, august, grand, dignified, sublime, majestic, vast, immense, enormous, extreme, inordinate, excessive, extravagant, exorbitant, outrageous, preposterous, unconscionable, swinging, monstrous, overgrown, towering, stupendous, prodigious, astonishing, incredible, marvelous, unlimited, unapproachable, unutterable, indescribable, ineffable, unspeakable, inexpressible, beyond expression, fabulous, undiminished, unabated, unreduced, unrestricted, absolute, positive, stark, decided, unequivocal, essential, perfect, finished, remarkable, of mark, marked, pointed, veriest, noteworthy, renowned, truly, decidedly, unequivocally, purely, absolutely, seriously, essentially, fundamentally, radically, downright, in all conscience, for the most part, in the main, entirely, abundantly, widely, far and wide, greatly, much, muckle, well, indeed, very, very much, a deal, no end of, most, not a little, pretty, pretty well, enough, in a great measure, richly, to a large extent, to a great extent, to a gigantic extent, on a large scale, so, never so, ever so, ever so dole, scrap, shred, tag, splinter, rag, much, by wholesale, mighty, powerfully, with a witness, ultra, in the extreme, extremely, exceedingly, intensely, exquisitely, acutely, indefinitely, immeasurably, beyond compare, beyond comparison, beyond measure, beyond all bounds, incalculably, infinitely, preeminently, superlatively, immoderately, monstrously, preposterously, inordinately, exorbitantly, excessively, enormously, out of all proportion, with a vengeance, particularly, remarkably, singularly, curiously, uncommonly, unusually, peculiarly, notably, signally, strikingly, pointedly, mainly, chiefly, famously, egregiously, prominently, glaringly, emphatically, kat exochin, strangely, wonderfully, amazingly, surprisingly, astonishingly, incredibly, marvelously, awfully, stupendously, peculiarly, furiously, severely, desperately, tremendously, extravagantly, confoundedly, deucedly, devilishly, with a vengeance, a outrance, a toute outrance, painfully, sadly, grossly, sorely, bitterly, piteously, grievously, miserably, cruelly, woefully, lamentably, shockingly, frightfully, dreadfully, fearfully, terribly, horribly, a maximis ad minima, greatness knows itself, mightiest powers by deepest calms are fed, minimum decet libere cui multum licet, some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.