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1. (adj) petroleum, crude oil, crude, rock oil, fossil oil, oil
a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons

2. (adj) crude, rough
not carefully or expertly made
"managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry"

3. (adj) crude, earthy, gross, vulgar
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"

4. (adj) unrefined, unprocessed, crude
not refined or processed
"unrefined ore"; "crude oil"

5. (adj) crude, primitive, rude
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"

6. (adj) blunt, crude(a), stark(a)
devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment
"the blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality of the deadline"

7. (adj) crude, raw
not processed or subjected to analysis
"raw data"; "the raw cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics"


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