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crude

adj
/kɹuːd/

Etymology

From Middle English crude, borrowed from Latin crūdus (“raw, bloody, uncooked, undigested, crude”). Doublet of crudo, from Italian. Cognate with Old English hrēaw (“raw, uncooked”) via Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“raw blood”); more at raw.

  1. derived from *krewh₂-✻
  2. derived from crūdus — “raw, bloody, uncooked, undigested, crude”
  3. inherited from crude

Definitions

  1. In a natural, untreated state.

    • crude oil

  2. Characterized by simplicity, especially something not carefully or expertly made.

    • a crude shelter
    • a crude estimate
    • a crude guess

  3. Lacking concealing elements.

    • a crude truth
  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. Lacking tact or taste.

      • a crude remark
      • You shouldn't use such crude language when talking to the bank manager.
      • At first, there’s something almost disconcertingly crude about the sasquatch skins.

    2. Not adjusted or further analyzed.

    3. Immature or unripe.

    4. Uncooked, raw.

      • Her mete was very crude, She had not wel endude; […]

    5. Pertaining to the uninflected stem of a word.

    6. Any substance in its natural state.

    7. Ellipsis of crude oil.

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Derived

crude birth rate, crude carrier, crude death rate, crude form, crudeform, crudely, crude material, cruden, crudeness, crude oil, crude sap, crudesome, crudy, ultra large crude carrier, uncrude, very large crude carrier, biocrude, Brent crude, sour crude, sweet crude, syncrude

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for crude. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA