Definitions for crude
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Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. petroleum, crude oil, crude, rock oil, fossil oil, oil(adj)

   a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons

2. crude, rough(adj)

   not carefully or expertly made

   "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry"

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

   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. unrefined, unprocessed, crude(adj)

   not refined or processed

   "unrefined ore"; "crude oil"

5. crude, primitive, rude(adj)

   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. blunt, crude(a), stark(a)(adj)

   devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment

   "the blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality of the deadline"

7. crude, raw(adj)

   not processed or subjected to analysis

   "raw data"; "the raw cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics"

Wiktionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. crude(Noun)

   Any substance in its natural state.

2. crude(Noun)

   Crude oil.

3. crude(Adjective)

   Being in a natural state.

   crude oil

4. crude(Adjective)

   Characterized by simplicity, especially something not carefully or expertly made.

   a crude shelter

5. crude(Adjective)

   Lacking concealing elements.

   a crude truth

6. crude(Adjective)

   Lacking tact or taste.

   a crude remark

7. crude(Adjective)

   Being in an unanalyzed form.

   crude data

8. crude(Adjective)

   Immature or unripe.

Origin: From crude, from crudus, from krewa-. Cognate with hreaw. More at raw.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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

Origin: [L. crudus raw; akin to cruor blood (which flows from a wound). See Raw, and cf. Cruel.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Crude

   Crude is the first studio album from Shetland based band Bongshang.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Crude

   krōōd, adj. raw, unprepared: not reduced to order or form: unfinished: undigested: immature.—adv. Crude′ly.—ns. Crude′ness; Crud′ity, rawness: unripeness: that which is crude.—adj. Crud′y (Shak.), crude, raw. [L. crudus, raw.]

British National Corpus

1. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'crude' in Adjectives Frequency: #786

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1. cured

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of crude in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of crude in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of crude in a Sentence

1. Leo Tolstoy:

   Crude, immoral, vulgar and senseless.

2. Edgar Rangel:

   It is a very good volume, it is good crude.

3. Virendra Chauhan:

   Cushing is clearly screaming out for crude.

4. Eugene Lindell:

   There is simply so much crude on the market.

5. George Lucas:

   Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

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