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Crass vs Expatiate - What's the difference?

crass | expatiate |

As an adjective crass

is coarse; crude; not refined or sensible.

As a verb expatiate is

to range at large, or without restraint.

crass

English

Adjective

(er)
  • coarse; crude; not refined or sensible
  • * 2002 , ,
    • You guys would rather be with someone else who’s equal to your status in life. Tiger Woods, or somebody. I comes across as crass , a Neanderthal, a babbling idiot sometimes. I like to show you that person. I like that person. [...]
  • materialistic
  • dense

    • Antonyms

    * delicate, sensible, refined

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    expatiate

    English

    Verb

    (expatiat)
  • To range at large, or without restraint.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Bids his free soul expatiate in the skies.
  • To write or speak at length; to be copious in argument or discussion, to descant.
  • *1851 ,
    • Now, as the business of standing mast-heads, ashore or afloat, is a very ancient and interesting one, let us in some measure expatiate here.
  • * Addison
    • He expatiated on the inconveniences of trade.
  • * 2007 , Clive James, Cultural Amnesia (Picador 2007, p. 847)
  • *:“It can't fly,” he expatiated . “It can move forward only by hopping.”
  • (obsolete) To expand; to spread; to extend; to diffuse; to broaden.