crude (adj.)

  1. not refined or processed; unrefined ore; crude oil

    [ Syn: unrefined , unprocessed ]

    crude (n.)

  1. a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons

    [ Syn: petroleum , petroleum , crude oil , crude oil , rock oil , rock oil , fossil oil , fossil oil , oil , oil ]

    crude (adj.)

  1. not carefully or expertly made; managed to make a crude splint; a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them; rough carpentry

    [ Syn: rough ]

  2. conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; 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

    [ Syn: earthy , gross , vulgar ]

  3. belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness; the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man; primitive movies of the 1890s; primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains

    [ Syn: primitive , rude ]

  4. devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; the blunt truth; the crude facts; facing the stark reality of the deadline

    [ Syn: blunt , stark ]

  5. not processed or subjected to analysis; raw data; the raw cost of production; only the crude vital statistics

    [ Syn: raw ]

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