crude

• POS: Adjective, Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

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

•  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.  Boyle.  [1913 Webster]

  "Molding to its will each successive deposit of the crude materials."  [1913 Webster]
•  Unripe; not mature or perfect; immature.  [1913 Webster]

  "I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude."  [1913 Webster]
•  Not reduced to order or form; unfinished; not arranged or prepared; ill-considered; immature.  Macaulay.  [1913 Webster]

  "Crude, undigested masses of suggestion, furnishing rather raw materials for composition."  [1913 Webster]

  "The originals of Nature in their crude
  Conception."  [1913 Webster]
•  Undigested; unconcocted; not brought into a form to give nourishment.  Bacon.  [1913 Webster]
•  Having, or displaying, superficial and undigested knowledge; without culture or profundity; as, a crude reasoner.  [1913 Webster]
•  Harsh and offensive, as a color; tawdry or in bad taste, as a combination of colors, or any design or work of art.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

crude, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 a in the natural or raw state; not refined. b rough, unpolished; lacking finish.
2 a (of an action or statement or manners) rude, blunt. b offensive, indecent (a crude gesture).
3 a Statistics (of figures) not adjusted or corrected. b rough (a crude estimate).
--n. natural mineral oil.

Derivative

crudely adv. crudeness n. crudity n.

Etymology

ME f. L crudus raw, rough

THESAURUS

crude

Doric, abhorrent, abominable, amateurish, arrested, avgas, backward, barbaric, barbarous, barnyard, base, beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt, blatant, blinding, blue, blunt, boorish, brazen, brazenfaced, brusque, cacophonous, caddish, cloddish, clodhopping, clumsy, coarse, colorful, contemptible, crass, crude oil, despicable, detestable, dirty, disgusting, doggerel, dysphemistic, earthy, embryonic, ethyl, ethyl gas, execrable, extravagant, fetid, filthy, flagrant, flaring, flashy, flaunting, forbidding, fossil oil, foul, fulsome, garish, gas, gasoline, gaudy, glaring, gorgeous, graceless, gross, harsh, hateful, heinous, high-octane gas, high-test, ignoble, ignorant, ill-bred, immature, improper, impure, in bad taste, in embryo, in ovo, in the rough, inadequate, inconcinnate, inconcinnous, inconsiderate, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, ineffective, inelegant, inexpert, infelicitous, inferior, insensible, insensitive, kerosene, lead-free gas, loathsome, loud, loutish, louty, low, low-lead gas, lowbred, lurid, malodorous, mephitic, meretricious, miasmal, miasmic, motor oil, nasty, native, natural, nauseating, noisome, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, obtrusive, odious, offensive, ore, original, outlandish, overbright, oversimple, paraffin, petrol, petroleum, poor, premium gas, prentice, primitive, rare, raunchy, raw, raw material, rebarbative, red, reductionistic, reductive, regular, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, ribald, rich ore, rich vein, risque, rock oil, rough, rough diamond, roughcast, roughhewn, rude, rudimental, rudimentary, run-of-mine, rustic, savage, screaming, sensational, shameless, shrieking, sickening, simplistic, smutty, spectacular, stinking, stunted, tactless, tasteless, tawdry, unanalyzed mass, unbaked, unblown, unboiled, uncivil, uncooked, uncourtly, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, uncut, undercooked, underdeveloped, underdone, undeveloped, undignified, undressed, unenlightened, uneuphonious, unfashioned, unfelicitous, unfeminine, unfinished, unformed, ungenteel, ungentle, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, ungraded, unhewn, unlabored, unladylike, unlicked, unlicked cub, unmatured, unpolished, unprocessed, unproficient, unrefined, unseemly, unskilled, unsolicitous, unsophisticated, unsorted, untaught, untrained, untreated, unworked, unwrought, vile, virgin soil, vulgar

ROGET THESAURUS

crude

Inelegance

N inelegance, stiffness, unlettered Muse, barbarism, slang, solecism, mannerism, euphuism, fustian, cacophony, words that break the teeth, words that dislocate the jaw, marinism, inelegant, graceless, ungraceful, harsh, abrupt, dry, stiff, cramped, formal, guinde, forced, labored, artificial, mannered, ponderous, awkward, uncourtly, unpolished, turgid, affected, euphuistic, barbarous, uncouth, grotesque, rude, crude, halting, offensive to ears polite, Spoken Language.

Imperfection

N imperfection, imperfectness, deficiency, inadequacy, peccancy, immaturity, fault, defect, weak point, screw loose, flaw, gap, twist, taint, attainder, bar sinister, hole in one's coat, blemish, weakness, half blood, shortcoming, drawback, seamy side, mediocrity, no great shakes, no great catch, not much to boast of, one-horse shay, imperfect, not perfect, deficient, defective, faulty, unsound, tainted, out of order, out of tune, cracked, leaky, sprung, warped, lame, injured, peccant, frail, inadequate, crude, incomplete, found wanting, below par, short-handed, below its full strength, under its full strength, below its full complement, indifferent, middling, ordinary, mediocre, average, so-so, coucicouci, milk and water, tolerable, fair, passable, pretty well, pretty good, rather good, moderately good, good, good enough, well enough, adequate, decent, not bad, not amiss, inobjectionable, unobjectionable, admissible, bearable, only better than nothing, secondary, inferior, second-rate, second-best, one-horse, almost, to a limited extent, rather, pretty, moderately, passing, only, considering, all things considered, enough, surgit amari aliquid.

Incompleteness

N incompleteness, deficiency, short measure, shortcoming, insufficiency, imperfection, immaturity, half measures, defect, deficit, defalcation, omission, caret, shortage, interval, break, noncompletion, missing link, missing piece, missing part, gap, hole, lacuna, incomplete, imperfect, unfinished, uncompleted &c (complete), defective, deficient, wanting, lacking, failing, in default, in arrear, short of, hollow, meager, lame, halfand-half, perfunctory, sketchy, crude, mutilated, garbled, docked, lopped, truncated, in progress, in hand, going on, proceeding, incompletely, by halves, caetera desunt, caret.

Nonpreparation

N nonpreparation, non-preparation, absence of preparation, want of preparation, inculture, inconcoction, improvidence, immaturity, crudity, rawness, abortion, disqualification, nature, state of nature, virgin soil, unweeded garden, neglect, rough copy, germ, raw material, improvisation, unprepared (prepare), without preparation, incomplete, rudimental, embryonic, abortive, immature, unripe, kachcha, raw, green, crude, coarse, rough cast, rough hewn, in the rough, unhewn, unformed, unfashioned, unwrought, unlabored, unblown, uncooked, unboiled, unconcocted, unpolished, unhatched, unfledged, unnurtured, unlicked, untaught, uneducated, uncultivated, untrained, untutored, undrilled, unexercised, deckle- edged, precocious, premature, undigested, indigested, unmellowed, unseasoned, unleavened, unrehearsed, unscripted, extemporaneous, improvised, spontaneous, ad lib, ad libitem, fallow, unsown, untilled, natural, in a state of nature, undressed, in dishabille, en deshabille, unqualified, disqualified, unfitted, ill-digested, unbegun, unready, unarranged, unorganized, unfurnished, unprovided, unequipped, untrimmed, out of gear, out of order, dismantled, shiftless, improvident, unthrifty, thriftless, thoughtless, unguarded, happy-go- lucky, caught napping, unpremeditated, extempore.

Color

N color, hue, tint, tinge, dye, complexion, shade, tincture, cast, livery, coloration, glow, flush, tone, key, pure color, positive color, primary color, primitive complementary color, three primaries, spectrum, chromatic dispersion, broken color, secondary color, tertiary color, local color, coloring, keeping, tone, value, aerial perspective, chromatics, spectrum analysis, spectroscopy, chromatism, chromatography, chromatology, prism, spectroscope, spectrograph, spectrometer, colorimeter (optical instruments), pigment, coloring matter, paint, dye, wash, distemper, stain, medium, mordant, oil paint, colored, colorific, tingent, tinctorial, chromatic, prismatic, full-colored, high-colored, deep-colored, doubly-dyed, polychromatic, chromatogenous, tingible, bright, vivid, intense, deep, fresh, unfaded, rich, gorgeous, gay, gaudy, florid, gay, garish, rainbow-colored, multihued, showy, flaunting, flashy, raw, crude, glaring, flaring, discordant, inharmonious, mellow, pastel, harmonious, pearly, sweet, delicate, tender, refined.