| 单词 | crass |
| 释义 | crass (once / 4956 pages) adj A crass comment is very stupid and shows that the speaker doesn't care about other people's feelings. In today's day and age, you don't have to wear black to a funeral, but to show up in clown pants is simply crass. The source of this adjective is Latin crassus "thick, dense, fat." A similar development of meaning can be seen in English dense in the sense of "stupid, slow to understand," from Latin densus "thick, dense," and in English thick, which can also be used to mean "stupid." WORD FAMILYcrass: crasser, crassest, crassly, crassness+/crassness: crassnesses USAGE EXAMPLESIn “Charlie Brown,” the eponymous lead wonders if all that’s left of Christmas is the crass commercialization he sees all around him. Los Angeles Times(Dec 23, 2016) It is “trite, crass and insultingly moronic,” our reviewer writes. New York Times(Dec 23, 2016) The knock on reboots is that they are a crass play for audiences, uncreative attempts to recapture former ratings glory. Slate(Dec 22, 2016) adj (of persons) so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility Syn unrefined (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth |
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