Dictionary Definition
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: coarse, earthy, gross, vulgar]
3 not refined or processed; "unrefined ore";
"crude oil" [syn: unrefined, unprocessed] [ant: refined]
4 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]
5 devoid of any qualifications or disguise or
adornment; "the blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark
reality of the deadline" [syn: blunt, crude(a), stark(a)]
6 not processed or subjected to analysis; "raw
data"; "the raw cost of production"; "only the crude vital
statistics" [syn: raw] n : a
dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons [syn: petroleum, crude oil,
rock
oil, fossil
oil]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From kru:d/Homophones
Adjective
Synonyms
- (being in a natural state): raw, unrefined, unprocessed
- (characterized by simplicity): primitive, rough, rude, rudimentary
- (lacking concealing elements): obvious, plain, unadorned, undisguised
- (lacking tact or taste): blunt, coarse, earthy, gross, stark, uncultivated, vulgar
- (statistics: in an unanalyzed form): raw
- (archaic: immature or unripe): See immature or unripe
Translations
being in a natural state
characterized by simplicity
lacking concealing elements
- Swedish: ohöljd, oförblommerad
lacking tact or taste
statistics: in an unanalyzed form
- Swedish: obearbetad, rå
- Telugu: ముడి (muDi)
Translations to be checked
- ttbc Dutch: ruw (1,2), ongeraffineerd (1), rudimentair (2)
- ttbc Esperanto: kruda petrolo, nafto
- ttbc Indonesian: mentah
- ttbc Spanish: crudo (1), rudimentario (2)
- ttbc Italian: greggio, grezzo (1,2), crudo (3,4)
Derived terms
Noun
crude- Any substance in its natural state.
- See crude oil
Translations
any substance in its natural state
- Swedish: råämne
Italian
Adjective
crude f plural- feminine plural of crudo
Extensive Definition
Crude can refer to:
- Petroleum in its
unprocessed form ("crude oil"), specifically:
- Brent crude oil
- Heavy crude oil
- Light crude oil
- Sweet crude
oil
- Pennsylvania Grade Crude Oil, a type of sweet crude
- Synthetic crude oil
- Dubai Crude, an oil price benchmark
- Off-color humor ("crude" humor)
- Crude (documentary), Australian documentary about Crude Oil
crude in Spanish: Crudo
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Doric,
abhorrent, abominable, amateurish, arrested, avgas, backward, barbaric, barbarous, barnyard, base, beastly, below contempt, beneath
contempt, blatant,
blinding, blue, blunt, boorish, brazen, brazenfaced, brusque, cacophonous, caddish, cloddish, clodhopping, clumsy, coarse, colorful, contemptible, crass, crude oil, despicable, detestable, dirty, disgusting, doggerel, dysphemistic, earthy, embryonic, ethyl, ethyl gas, execrable, extravagant, fetid, filthy, flagrant, flaring, flashy, flaunting, forbidding, fossil oil,
foul, fulsome, garish, gas, gasoline, gaudy, glaring, gorgeous, graceless, gross, harsh, hateful, heinous, high-octane gas,
high-test, ignoble,
ignorant, ill-bred,
immature, improper, impure, in bad taste, in embryo,
in ovo, in the rough, inadequate, inconcinnate, inconcinnous, inconsiderate, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, ineffective, inelegant, inexpert, infelicitous, inferior, insensible, insensitive, kerosene, lead-free gas,
loathsome, loud, loutish, louty, low, low-lead gas, lowbred, lurid, malodorous, mephitic, meretricious, miasmal, miasmic, motor oil, nasty, native, natural, nauseating, noisome, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, obtrusive, odious, offensive, ore, original, outlandish, overbright, oversimple, paraffin, petrol, petroleum, poor, premium gas, prentice, primitive, rare, raunchy, raw, raw material, rebarbative, red, reductionistic, reductive, regular, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, ribald, rich ore, rich vein,
risque, rock oil,
rough, rough diamond,
roughcast, roughhewn, rude, rudimental, rudimentary, run-of-mine,
rustic, savage, screaming, sensational, shameless, shrieking, sickening, simplistic, smutty, spectacular, stinking, stunted, tactless, tasteless, tawdry, unanalyzed mass, unbaked, unblown, unboiled, uncivil, uncooked, uncourtly, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, uncut, undercooked, underdeveloped, underdone, undeveloped, undignified, undressed, unenlightened, uneuphonious, unfashioned, unfelicitous, unfeminine, unfinished, unformed, ungenteel, ungentle, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, ungraded, unhewn, unlabored, unladylike, unlicked, unlicked cub,
unmatured, unpolished, unprocessed, unproficient, unrefined, unseemly, unskilled, unsolicitous, unsophisticated,
unsorted, untaught, untrained, untreated, unworked, unwrought, vile, virgin soil, vulgar