crass
(adjective) (of persons) so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility
Source: WordNet® 3.1
crass (comparative crasser, superlative crassest)
coarse; crude; unrefined or insensitive; lacking discrimination
materialistic
dense
Lacking finesse; crude and obvious.
• (coarse; crude; not refined, insensitive): delicate, sensitive, refined
• csars, scars
Source: Wiktionary
Crass (krs), a. Etym: [L. crassus thick, fat, gross, prob. orig., closely woven See Crease animal fat, and cf. Crate, Hurdle.]
Definition: Cross; thick; dense; coarse; not elaborated or refined. "Crass and fumid exhalations." Sir. T. Browne. "Crass ignorance" Cudworth.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
