crude

[ krood ]

/ krud /

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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.

Nearby words

crucis, cruciverbalist, cruck, crud, cruddy, crude, crude oil, crudely, cruden, crudites, crudity

Origin of crude

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin crūdus uncooked, raw, bleeding, rough, akin to cruor blood from a wound; see raw

SYNONYMS FOR crude

1 unfinished, coarse.

4 uncouth, rough, rude, coarse, clumsy.

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ANTONYMS FOR crude

1, 4 refined.

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Related forms

crude·ly, adverbcrude·ness, nounun·crude, adjectiveun·crude·ly, adverb

un·crude·ness, noun

Synonym study

1. See raw.

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Examples from the Web for crudeness

“First, the crudeness of the weapons,” he said, enumerating his reasons.
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Koplitz seizes the opportunity, and diagnoses the crudeness of the outburst as symptoms of “pussy-repellant serial killers.”
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That equation of crudeness with authenticity has a long pedigree in our culture.
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Concha foresaw that she was going to know the truth; a cruel truth with all the crudeness of a discovery in broad daylight.
Woman Triumphant|Vicente Blasco Ibaez

It seemed hysterical and overwrought in places—it gives the effect of crudeness.
The Journal of Arthur Stirling|Upton Sinclair
And then, of course, the crudeness of the works produced a great deal of friction.
Time Telling through the Ages|Harry Chase Brearley
The ground of the superiority of hand-wrought goods, therefore, is a certain margin of crudeness.
The Theory of the Leisure Class|Thorstein Veblen
Yet this New England trait of severe selection is a blessing to the country, and has leavened its crudeness from ocean to ocean.
Papers and proceedings of the thirty-fifth general meeting of the American Library Association, 1913|Various

British Dictionary definitions for crudeness

crude

/ (kruːd) /

adjective

lacking taste, tact, or refinement; vulgara crude joke

in a natural or unrefined state

lacking care, knowledge, or skilla crude sketch

(prenominal) stark; bluntthe crude facts

(of statistical data) unclassified or unanalysed

archaic unripe

noun

short for crude oil

Derived Formscrudely, adverbcrudity or crudeness, noun

Word Origin for crude

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

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Word Origin and History for crudeness

crude

adj.

late 14c., "in a raw state," from Latin crudus "rough; not cooked, raw, bloody," from PIE *krue-do-, from PIE *kreue- (1) "raw flesh" (see raw). Meaning "lacking grace" is first attested 1640s. Related: Crudely; crudeness. Crude oil is from 1865.

crude

adjective, crud·er, crud·est.

noun

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