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"
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, crudeflesh
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 givenourishment
5. crude having, or displaying, superficial and undigested knowledge; without culture or profundity; as, a crudereasoner
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