Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Being in an unrefined or natural state.
- adjective Lacking tact or taste; blunt or offensive.
- adjective Lacking in sophistication or subtlety; simplistic.
- adjective Not carefully or skillfully made; rough.
- adjective Undisguised or unadorned; plain.
- adjective Statistics In an unanalyzed form; not adjusted to allow for related circumstances or data.
- adjective Archaic Unripe or immature.
- noun A substance, especially petroleum, in its unrefined state.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Being in a raw or unprepared state; not fitted for use by cooking, manufacture, or the like; not altered, refined, or prepared by any artificial process; not wrought: as, crude vegetables; the crude materials of the earth; crude salt; crude ore.
- Hence 3. Unrefined; unpolished; coarse; rough; gross: as, crude manners or speech; a crude feast.
- Not worked into the proper form; lacking finish, polish, proper arrangement, or completeness; hence, exhibiting lack of knowledge or skill; imperfect: said of things: as, a crude painting; a crude theory; a crude attempt.
- Characterized by lack of sufficient knowledge or skill; unable to produce what is finished, polished, or complete: said of persons.
- Synonyms Raw. Crude. See
raw .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective 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.
- adjective Unripe; not mature or perfect; immature.
- adjective Not reduced to order or form; unfinished; not arranged or prepared; ill-considered; immature.
- adjective Undigested; unconcocted; not brought into a form to give nourishment.
- adjective Having, or displaying, superficial and undigested knowledge; without culture or profundity.
- adjective (Paint.) Harsh and offensive, as a color; tawdry or in bad taste, as a combination of colors, or any design or work of art.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Being in a natural state.
- adjective Characterized by simplicity, especially something not carefully or expertly made.
- adjective Lacking concealing elements.
- adjective Lacking tact or taste.
- adjective statistics Being in an unanalyzed form.
- adjective archaic
Immature orunripe . - noun Any substance in its natural state.
- noun
Crude oil .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not carefully or expertly made
- adjective belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness
- adjective conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
- adjective not refined or processed
- adjective devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment
- adjective not processed or subjected to analysis
- noun a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Normally, crude is shipped to Far East in 50 days but when the Med Stream is completed it would take 19 days to transport crude from the Red Sea.
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Normally, crude is shipped to Far East in 50 days but when the Med Stream is completed it would take 19 days to transport crude from the Red Sea.
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Polanski's backers, ranging from fellow directors to French culture and foreign ministers, criticized U.S. and Los Angeles judicial authorities for seeking what they called crude revenge against a major artist who deserved more respect.
Roman Polanski freed after Swiss reject U.S. extradition request 2010
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Polanski's backers, ranging from fellow directors to French culture and foreign ministers, criticized U.S. and Los Angeles judicial authorities for seeking what they called crude revenge against a major artist who deserved more respect.
Roman Polanski freed after Swiss reject U.S. extradition request 2010
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Polanski's backers, ranging from fellow directors to French culture and foreign ministers, criticized U.S. and Los Angeles judicial authorities for seeking what they called crude revenge against a major artist who deserved more respect.
Roman Polanski freed after Swiss reject U.S. extradition request 2010
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LEMON: Well, what he said to me earlier -- and we're going to talk to him in just a little bit, we've just got him on the phone, Wolf -- he said that he made some crude -- what he called crude and hurtful comments that he much rather have made to the senator in private.
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Reverend Jesse Jackson is apologizing for what he calls crude and hurtful comments about Barack Obama.
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The Reverend Jesse Jackson apologizing to Senator Barack Obama for making what he calls crude comments that were picked up by a live television microphone.
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James Boyle expressed what he termed a crude political fear, which closely tracked the Benkler-Sunder exchange: There are two schools of thought in WIPO – (1) optimistic: the traditional knowledge initiative can show the narrowness and blindness of current IP conceptions, which need to bring together effects on environment and other distributional issues; and (2) cynical: access to knowledge is a threat to WIPO, and traditional knowledge protections are the bone to be thrown.
Cultural Environmentalism at 10: Madhavi Sunder Rebecca Tushnet 2006
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But what we call crude forms are often in reality germinal forms; and one or other of these flowered at once into the practical conclusion that God must know all his trouble, and would work for him a worthy peace.
Malcolm George MacDonald 1864
bilby commented on the word crude
Crudo, in Italian, means simply uncooked. It does not equate to the English crude.
March 27, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word crude
I like crudités.
March 27, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word crude
Bilby, I know you can write some amusing phrase that will help remember this false friend. (*smiles*)
March 27, 2009
bilby commented on the word crude
Dearest and Most Honourable Dinner Invitee,
Pray absorb this snippet of mnemonic repartee:
If you had expected an overly generous portion of prosciutto crudo,
You should not have requested it in manner so crude. Oh!
March 27, 2009