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crude

UK/kɹuːd/ US/kɹʉd/ fairly common

adjective

1.

not carefully or expertly made

  • “managed to make a crude splint”
  • “a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them”
  • “rough carpentry”
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2.

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”
3.

not refined or processed

  • “unrefined ore”
  • “crude oil”
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4.

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”
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5.

devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment

  • “the blunt truth”
  • “the crude facts”
  • “facing the stark reality of the deadline”
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6.

not processed or subjected to analysis

  • “raw data”
  • “the raw cost of production”
  • “only the crude vital statistics”
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noun

1.

a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons

Phrases

  • Brent crude
  • crude birth rate
  • crude carrier
  • crude death rate
  • crude form
  • crude material
  • crude oil
  • crude sap
  • sour crude
  • sweet crude
  • ultra large crude carrier

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