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Meaning of 'crude' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Crude [ superl.]
- 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.
- Unripe; not mature or perfect; immature.
- Not reduced to order or form; unfinished; not arranged or prepared; ill-considered; immature.
- Undigested; unconcocted; not brought into a form to give nourishment.
- Having, or displaying, superficial and undigested knowledge; without culture or profundity; as, a crude reasoner.
- Harsh and offensive, as a color; tawdry or in bad taste, as a combination of colors, or any design or work of art.

Meaning of 'crude' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . crude [ a]
Meaning (1):
- not refined or processed
Example in sentence:
  • crude oil;
  • unrefined ore
2 . crude [ s]
Meaning (2):
- not carefully or expertly made
Example in sentence:
  • a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them;
  • managed to make a crude splint;
  • rough carpentry
Meaning (3):
- conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
Example in sentence:
  • a crude joke;
  • a revoltingly gross expletive;
  • a vulgar gesture;
  • an earthy sense of humor;
  • coarse language;
  • crude behavior;
  • full of language so vulgar it should have been edited
Meaning (4):
- devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment
Example in sentence:
  • facing the stark reality of the deadline;
  • the blunt truth;
  • the crude facts
Meaning (5):
- not processed or subjected to analysis
Example in sentence:
  • only the crude vital statistics;
  • raw data;
  • the raw cost of production
Meaning (6):
- belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness
Example in sentence:
  • primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains;
  • primitive movies of the 1890s;
  • the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man

Nearby Words:

cruces crucial crucian carp cruciate cruciation crucible crucifer cruciferous crucified crucifier

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