crude
a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons
• Syn:
petroleum, crude oil, rock oil, fossil oil, oil
• Hypernyms:
oil, fossil fuel
• Hyponyms:
residual oil, resid
• Substance Meronyms:
carbon, C, atomic number 6
1. not carefully or expertly made (Freq. 6)
- managed to make a crude splint
- a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them
- rough carpentry
• Syn:
rough
• Similar to:
unskilled
• Derivationally related forms:
roughness (for: rough), crudeness
2. conspicuously and tastelessly indecent (Freq. 2)
- 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
• Syn:
earthy, gross, vulgar
• Similar to:
indecent
• Derivationally related forms:
vulgarity (for: vulgar), grossness (for: gross), crudeness, crudity
3. not refined or processed
- unrefined ore
- crude oil
• Syn:
unrefined, unprocessed
• Ant:
refined (for: unrefined)
• Derivationally related forms:
crudeness, crudity
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
• Syn:
primitive, rude
• Similar to:
early
• Derivationally related forms:
rudeness (for: rude), primitiveness (for: primitive), crudeness, crudity
5. devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment
- the blunt truth
- the crude facts
- facing the stark reality of the deadline
• Syn:
blunt, stark
• Similar to:
unconditional, unconditioned
• Derivationally related forms:
starkness (for: stark)
6. not processed or subjected to analysis
- raw data
- the raw cost of production
- only the crude vital statistics
• Syn:
raw
• Similar to:
unanalyzed
• Derivationally related forms:
rawness (for: raw), crudity
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