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 Definitions of crude  [krud]  

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Definition of 'crude' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (adj.) crude
in a raw or unrefined state:
crude sugar.

2.  crude
rudimentary or undeveloped.

3.  crude
showing a lack of polish, completeness, or skill; rough:
a crude shelter.

4.  crude
lacking culture, refinement, etc.; vulgar:
crude behavior.

5.  crude
blunt; stark.

6.  crude
Obs. unripe; not mature.

Etymology:  (1350–1400; < L crūdus raw, bleeding, rough, akin to cruor blood from a wound; see raw)

Definition of 'crude' Princeton's WordNet 

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"


Definition of 'crude' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (adjective) crude
basic and showing little skill
crude drawings

2.  crude
(of language, behavior, or people) offensive; = vulgar
crude jokes


Definition of 'crude' Webster Dictionary 

1.  crude
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

2.  crude
unripe; not mature or perfect; immature

3.  crude
not reduced to order or form; unfinished; not arranged or prepared; ill-considered; immature

4.  crude
undigested; unconcocted; not brought into a form to give nourishment

5.  crude
having, or displaying, superficial and undigested knowledge; without culture or profundity; as, a crude reasoner

6.  crude
harsh and offensive, as a color; tawdry or in bad taste, as a combination of colors, or any design or work of art


Translation of 'crude' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: unrefined
crude oil.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: ruolie Arabic flag Arabic: خـام Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: суров
Brazilian flag Brazilian: cru Czech flag Czech: surový German flag German: roh
Danish flag Danish: rå; rå- Greek flag Greek: ακατέργαστος Spanish flag Spanish: crudo
Estonian flag Estonian: toor- Farsi flag Farsi: خام؛ تصفیه نشده Finnish flag Finnish: raaka
French flag French: brut Hebrew flag Hebrew: גָלמִי Hindi flag Hindi: अशोधित
Croatian flag Croatian: nepročišćen, sirov Hungarian flag Hungarian: nyers Indonesian flag Indonesian: mentah
Icelandic flag Icelandic: óunninn, hrár Italian flag Italian: greggio Japanese flag Japanese: 未加工の
Korean flag Korean: 천연 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: nerafinuotas, natūralus Latvian flag Latvian: jēls; neapstrādāts
Malay flag Malay: minyak mentah Dutch flag Dutch: grof, ruw Norwegian flag Norwegian: rå(-)
Polish flag Polish: surowy Persian flag Persian: خام؛ تصفیه نشده Pashto flag Pashto: خام ، نا تصفیه شوی
Portuguese flag Portuguese: não-refinado Romanian flag Romanian: ne­pre­lucrat Russian flag Russian: необработанный; сырой
Slovak flag Slovak: surový Slovenian flag Slovenian: surov Serbian flag Serbian: nerafinisan
Swedish flag Swedish: rå, obearbetad Thai flag Thai: ดิบ; ที่ยังไม่ได้ผ่านกระบ Turkish flag Turkish: ham
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 天然的,未加工的 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: сирий, сировий Urdu flag Urdu: خام، كچا
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: thô Chinese flag Chinese: 天然的,未加工的

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