crude

[ krood ]

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adjective,crud·er, crud·est.

in a raw or unprepared state; unrefined or natural: crude sugar.
lacking in intellectual subtlety, perceptivity, etc.; rudimentary; undeveloped.

lacking finish, polish, or completeness: a crude summary.
lacking culture, refinement, tact, etc.: crude behavior.
undisguised; blunt: a crude answer.
Obsolete. unripe; not mature.

noun

crude oil.

Origin of crude

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Latin crūdus “uncooked, raw, bleeding, rough,” akin to cruor “blood from a wound”; see raw

synonym study For crude

1. See raw.

Other words for crude

1	unfinished, coarse
4	uncouth, rough, rude, coarse, clumsy

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Opposites for crude

1, 4

refined

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Other words from crude

crude·ly, adverb
crude·ness, noun
un·crude·, adjective
un·crude·ness, noun

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How to use crude in a sentence

Total oil production figures include crude oil, natural gas liquids, and other liquid energy products.
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Originally conceived by author Clarence E. Mulford in 1904, Hopalong was crude, rough-talking, and dangerous.
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Those higher construction costs will mean higher costs for companies who want to use the pipeline to ship their crude to market.
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Three kids play cricket among the crude gravestones in a cemetery that is the largest in the province.
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The condensate is then supposed to be routed into the pipeline system that delivers the crude to the nearby refinery.
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This takes at first the crude device of a couple of vertical lines attached to the head (see Fig. 4).
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They had swung back a hundred centuries towards original crude life.
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This was a crude arrangement and often proved more of a hindrance than of a help to the player.
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In the center of the spot was a crude sign, projected in black lines upon the wall.
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Let us suppose that any one who denied the old crude errors of astrology was persecuted as a heretic.
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British Dictionary definitions for crude

crude

/ (kruːd) /

adjective

lacking taste, tact, or refinement; vulgar: a crude joke
in a natural or unrefined state

lacking care, knowledge, or skill: a crude sketch
(prenominal) stark; blunt: the crude facts
(of statistical data) unclassified or unanalysed
archaic unripe

noun

short for crude oil

Origin of crude

C14: from Latin crūdus bloody, raw; related to Latin cruor blood

Derived forms of crude

crudely, adverb
crudity or crudeness, noun

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