crude

  • (s) not carefully or expertly made
    • managed to make a crude splint
    • a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them
    • rough carpentry
    rough,
  • (s) 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
    earthy, vulgar, gross,
  • (a) not refined or processed
    • unrefined ore
    • crude oil
    unprocessed, unrefined,
  • (s) 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
    primitive, rude,
  • (s) devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment
    • the blunt truth
    • the crude facts
    • facing the stark reality of the deadline
    stark, blunt,
  • (s) not processed or subjected to analysis
    • raw data
    • the raw cost of production
    • only the crude vital statistics
    raw,

Nouns

Synonyms

crude oil fossil oil petroleum rock oil oil rough earthy vulgar gross unprocessed unrefined primitive rude stark blunt raw

Antonyms

processed refined

Words of close approximity

crud crus crux
cruel cruet crumb crump cruse crush crust
crudely crudeness crude oil