Etymology : Middle English, from Latin crudus raw, crude, undigested; more at RAW
Pronunciation : 'krüd
Function : adjective
Date : 14th century
1. raw; unrefined; rude. crude\crude\ (kr&udd;d), a. [compar. cruder (-&etilde;r); superl. crudest.] [l. crudus raw; akin to cruor blood (which flows from a wound). see:
raw, and cf. cruel.].
2. 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. "common crude salt." molding to its will each successive deposit of the crude materials. taylor.
3. unripe; not mature or perfect; immature. i come to pluck your berries harsh and crude.
4. not reduced to order or form; unfinished; not arranged or prepared; ill-considered; immature. "crude projects." crude, undigested masses of suggestion, furnishing rather raw materials for composition. the originals of nature in their crude conception.
5. undigested; unconcocted; not brought into a form to give nourishment. "crude and inconcoct.".
6. having, or displaying, superficial and undigested knowledge; without culture or profundity; as, a crude reasoner.
7. (paint.) harsh and offensive, as a color; tawdry or in bad taste, as a combination of colors, or any design or work of art.crude adj.
8. 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].
9. 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].
10. not refined or processed; "unrefined ore"; "crude oil" [syn: unrefined, unprocessed] [ant: refined].
11. 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].
12. 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) ].
13. not processed or subjected to analysis; "raw data"; "the raw cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics" [syn: raw] a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons [syn: petroleum, crude oil, coal oil, rock oil, fossil oil].
14. 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.
15. Unripe; not mature or perfect; immature.
16. Not reduced to order or form; unfinished; not arranged or prepared; ill-considered; immature.
17. Undigested; unconcocted; not brought into a form to give nourishment.
18. Having, or displaying, superficial and undigested knowledge; without culture or profundity; as, a crude reasoner.
19. Harsh and offensive, as a color; tawdry or in bad taste, as a combination of colors, or any design or work of art. not processed or subjected to analysis; "raw data"; "the raw cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics" belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and crudeness; "the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains" not carefully or expertly made; "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry".
20. 1. A crude method or measurement is not exact or detailed, but may be useful or correct in a rough, general way. Standard measurements of blood pressure are an important but crude way of assessing the risk of heart disease or strokes = rough + crudely crude·ly The donors can be split -- a little crudely -- into two groups.
21. If you describe an object that someone has made as crude, you mean that it has been made in a very simple way or from very simple parts. crude wooden boxes. + crudely crude·ly a crudely carved wooden form.
22. disapproval If you describe someone as crude, you disapprove of them because they speak or behave in a rude, offensive, or unsophisticated way. Nev! Must you be quite so crude? crude language. = coarse + crudely crude·ly He hated it when she spoke so crudely.
23. Crude substances are in a natural or unrefined state, and have not yet been used in manufacturing processes. 8.5 million tonnes of crude steel. = raw ¡Ù refined.
24. Crude is the same as crude oil. .crude 'oil oil that is in its natural condition, as it comes out of an oil well, before it is made more pure or separated into different products.
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