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crude

[ krood ]

adjective

, crud·er, crud·est.
  1. in a raw or unprepared state; unrefined or natural:

    crude sugar.

    Synonyms: coarse, unfinished

    Antonyms: refined

  2. lacking in intellectual subtlety, perceptivity, etc.; rudimentary; undeveloped.
  3. lacking finish, polish, or completeness:

    a crude summary.

  4. lacking culture, refinement, tact, etc.:

    crude behavior.

    Synonyms: clumsy, coarse, rude, rough, uncouth

    Antonyms: refined

  5. undisguised; blunt:

    a crude answer.

  6. Obsolete. unripe; not mature.


noun

crude

/ kruːd /

adjective

  1. lacking taste, tact, or refinement; vulgar

    a crude joke

  2. in a natural or unrefined state
  3. lacking care, knowledge, or skill

    a crude sketch

  4. prenominal stark; blunt

    the crude facts

  5. (of statistical data) unclassified or unanalysed
  6. archaic.
    unripe
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. short for crude oil
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈcrudity, noun
  • ˈcrudely, adverb
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Other Words From

  • crude·ly adverb
  • crude·ness noun
  • un·crude· adjective
  • un·crude·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of crude1

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

Origin of crude1

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

See raw.
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Example Sentences

Elsewhere, crude and Bitcoin continue to soar, and GameStop is up 10% in pre-market trading.

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Light crude from Texas contains hydrocarbons with chains between five and 12 carbon atoms long.

Europe’s energy stocks and crude prices continues to gain, as does Bitcoin.

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In 2007 Vin de Silva and Robert Ghrist showed how to use homology to detect holes in the sensors’ coverage, based on just this crude information.

While teleportation is a solution, it is a crude one, and brings players out of the experience, reminding them that they are not physically present within the game world.

Total oil production figures include crude oil, natural gas liquids, and other liquid energy products.

Originally conceived by author Clarence E. Mulford in 1904, Hopalong was crude, rough-talking, and dangerous.

Those higher construction costs will mean higher costs for companies who want to use the pipeline to ship their crude to market.

Three kids play cricket among the crude gravestones in a cemetery that is the largest in the province.

The condensate is then supposed to be routed into the pipeline system that delivers the crude to the nearby refinery.

This takes at first the crude device of a couple of vertical lines attached to the head (see Fig. 4).

They had swung back a hundred centuries towards original crude life.

This was a crude arrangement and often proved more of a hindrance than of a help to the player.

In the center of the spot was a crude sign, projected in black lines upon the wall.

Let us suppose that any one who denied the old crude errors of astrology was persecuted as a heretic.

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