Crude \Crude\ (kr[udd]d), a. [Compar. Cruder (-[~e]r); superl.
Crudest.] [L. crudus raw; akin to cruor blood (which flows
from a wound). See Raw, and cf. Cruel.]
1. In its natural state; not cooked or prepared by fire or
heat; undressed; not altered, refined, or prepared for use
by any artificial process; raw; as, crude flesh. "Common
crude salt." --Boyle.
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Molding to its will each successive deposit of the
crude materials. --I. Taylor.
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2. Unripe; not mature or perfect; immature.
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I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude.
--Milton.
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3. Not reduced to order or form; unfinished; not arranged or
prepared; ill-considered; immature. "Crude projects."
--Macaulay.
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Crude, undigested masses of suggestion, furnishing
rather raw materials for composition. --De Quincey.
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The originals of Nature in their crude
Conception. --Milton.
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4. Undigested; unconcocted; not brought into a form to give
nourishment. "Crude and inconcoct." --Bacon.
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5. Having, or displaying, superficial and undigested
knowledge; without culture or profundity; as, a crude
reasoner.
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6. (Paint.) Harsh and offensive, as a color; tawdry or in bad
taste, as a combination of colors, or any design or work
of art.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
crude
adj 1: not carefully or expertly made; "managed to make a crude
splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on
them"; "rough carpentry" [syn: rough]
2: conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse language";
"a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of
humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar
gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been
edited" [syn: coarse, earthy, gross, vulgar]
3: not refined or processed; "unrefined ore"; "crude oil" [syn:
unrefined, unprocessed] [ant: refined]
4: belonging to an early stage of technical development;
characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness; "the
crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early
man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living
conditions in the Appalachian mountains" [syn: primitive,
rude]
5: devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; "the
blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality
of the deadline" [syn: blunt, crude(a), stark(a)]
6: not processed or subjected to analysis; "raw data"; "the raw
cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics"
[syn: raw]
n : a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons [syn: petroleum,
crude oil, rock oil, fossil oil]
WordNet (r) 2.0
225 Moby Thesaurus words for "crude":
Doric, abhorrent, abominable, amateurish, arrested, avgas,
backward, barbaric, barbarous, barnyard, base, beastly,
below contempt, beneath contempt, blatant, blinding, blue, blunt,
boorish, brazen, brazenfaced, brusque, cacophonous, caddish,
cloddish, clodhopping, clumsy, coarse, colorful, contemptible,
crass, crude oil, despicable, detestable, dirty, disgusting,
doggerel, dysphemistic, earthy, embryonic, ethyl, ethyl gas,
execrable, extravagant, fetid, filthy, flagrant, flaring, flashy,
flaunting, forbidding, fossil oil, foul, fulsome, garish, gas,
gasoline, gaudy, glaring, gorgeous, graceless, gross, harsh,
hateful, heinous, high-octane gas, high-test, ignoble, ignorant,
ill-bred, immature, improper, impure, in bad taste, in embryo,
in ovo, in the rough, inadequate, inconcinnate, inconcinnous,
inconsiderate, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, indelicate,
ineffective, inelegant, inexpert, infelicitous, inferior,
insensible, insensitive, kerosene, lead-free gas, loathsome, loud,
loutish, louty, low, low-lead gas, lowbred, lurid, malodorous,
mephitic, meretricious, miasmal, miasmic, motor oil, nasty, native,
natural, nauseating, noisome, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious,
obscene, obtrusive, odious, offensive, ore, original, outlandish,
overbright, oversimple, paraffin, petrol, petroleum, poor,
premium gas, prentice, primitive, rare, raunchy, raw, raw material,
rebarbative, red, reductionistic, reductive, regular, repellent,
repugnant, repulsive, revolting, ribald, rich ore, rich vein,
risque, rock oil, rough, rough diamond, roughcast, roughhewn, rude,
rudimental, rudimentary, run-of-mine, rustic, savage, screaming,
sensational, shameless, shrieking, sickening, simplistic, smutty,
spectacular, stinking, stunted, tactless, tasteless, tawdry,
unanalyzed mass, unbaked, unblown, unboiled, uncivil, uncooked,
uncourtly, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, uncut, undercooked,
underdeveloped, underdone, undeveloped, undignified, undressed,
unenlightened, uneuphonious, unfashioned, unfelicitous, unfeminine,
unfinished, unformed, ungenteel, ungentle, ungentlemanly,
ungraceful, ungraded, unhewn, unlabored, unladylike, unlicked,
unlicked cub, unmatured, unpolished, unprocessed, unproficient,
unrefined, unseemly, unskilled, unsolicitous, unsophisticated,
unsorted, untaught, untrained, untreated, unworked, unwrought,
vile, virgin soil, vulgar
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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