noun
- A dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons.
- synonyms: petroleum, crude oil, rock oil, fossil oil, oil
adjective
- Not carefully or expertly made.
- usage: "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry"
- synonyms: rough
- Conspicuously and tastelessly indecent.
- usage: "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"
- Not refined or processed.
- usage: "unrefined ore"; "crude oil"
- synonyms: unrefined, unprocessed
- Belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness.
- usage: "the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains"
- Devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment.
- usage: "the blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality of the deadline"
- Not processed or subjected to analysis.
- usage: "raw data"; "the raw cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics"
- synonyms: raw
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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