crude

[crude]

Is it gross? Unsophisticated? Totally tasteless and positively offensive? Then you can describe it as crude.

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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.

Noun
a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons

Adjective S.
not processed or subjected to analysis; "raw data"; "the raw cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics"

Adjective S.
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"

Adjective S.
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 mo

Adjective
not refined or processed; "unrefined ore"; "crude oil"

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Adjective S.
not carefully or expertly made; "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry"

superl.
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.

superl.
Unripe; not mature or perfect; immature.

superl.
Not reduced to order or form; unfinished; not arranged or prepared; ill-considered; immature.

superl.
Undigested; unconcocted; not brought into a form to give nourishment.

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

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

Crude

Crude (kr?d), a. [Compar. Cruder (-?r); superl. Crudest.] [L. crudus raw; akin to cruor blood (which flows from a wound). See Raw, and cf. Cruel.] 1. 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. "Common crude salt." Boyle.

Molding to its will each successive deposit of the crude materials.

2. Unripe; not mature or perfect; immature.

I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude.

3. Not reduced to order or form;unfinished; not arranged or prepared; ill-considered; immature. "Crudeprojects." Macualay.

Crude, undigested masses of suggestion, furnishing rather raw materials for composition.

The originals of Nature in their crude Conception.

4. Undigested; unconcocted; not brought into a form to give nourishment. "Crude and inconcoct." Bacon. 5. Having, or displaying, superficial and undigested knowledge; without culture or profudity; as, a crude reasoner. 6. (Paint.) Harsh and offensive, as a color; tawdry or in bad taste, as a combination of colors, or any design or work of art.

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.

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Usage Examples

There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation.

Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp.

A variety of factors contribute to the price of gasoline in the United States. These factors include worldwide supply, demand and competition for crude oil, taxes, regional differences in access to gasoline supplies and environmental regulations.

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Other Usage Examples

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?

This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.