crude
[adjective]
Synonyms:
- primitive, clumsy, makeshift, rough, rough-and-ready, rudimentary, unpolished
- vulgar, coarse, dirty, gross, indecent, obscene, smutty, tasteless, uncouth
- unrefined, natural, raw, unprocessed

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Antonyms: consummate, finished, expert
Contrasted words: cultivated, cultured, refined, developed, matured, ripened, finished, perfected, polished
Related Idioms: rated X
Related Words: backward, ignorant, unenlightened, boorish, cloddish, clodhopping, ill-bred, loutish, lowbred, savage, insensible, immature, unmatured, coarse, graceless, blue, risqué, amateurish, unproficient, unskilled, untaught, untrained, raw, rough, rude, unfinished, unpolished, inadequate, ineffective, inferior, poor

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

I. crude¹ /kruːd/ adjective
[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Latin; Origin: crudus 'raw, rough, cruel']

1. not exact or without any detail, but generally correct and useful ⇒ approximate:
a crude estimate of the population available for work

2. not developed to a high standard, or made with little skill:
a crude wooden bridge
crude workmanship

3. offensive or rude, especially in a sexual way Synonym : vulgar:
crude pictures
His language was often crude.

4. [only before noun] crude oil, rubber etc is in its natural or raw condition before it is treated with chemicals

5. in crude terms expressed in a simple way:
Private morality, in crude terms, is not the law’s business.
—crudely adverb:
crudely built shacks
—crudeness noun [uncountable]
—crudity noun [uncountable and countable]

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

II. crude² (also ˌcrude ˈoil) noun [uncountable]
oil that is in its natural condition, as it comes out of an oil well, before it is made more pure or separated into different products:
1,000 barrels of crude

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲