crude
adjective
1.
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.
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”
5.
noun
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
Related words
Broader terms
Narrower terms
Part of
WordNet 2.1 (Princeton University). Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. WordNet 2.1 Copyright Princeton University. All rights reserved. Wiktionary content is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence.