crude

crude

C0745000 (kro͞od)adj. crud·er, crud·est 1. Being in an unrefined or natural state: crude cotton.2. Lacking tact or taste; blunt or offensive: a crude, mannerless oaf; a crude remark.3. Lacking in sophistication or subtlety; simplistic: had only a crude notion of how a computer works.4. Not carefully or skillfully made; rough: a quick, crude sketch.5. Undisguised or unadorned; plain: must face the crude truth.6. Statistics In an unanalyzed form; not adjusted to allow for related circumstances or data.7. Archaic Unripe or immature.n. A substance, especially petroleum, in its unrefined state.

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[Middle English, from Latin crūdus; see kreuə- in Indo-European roots.]

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crude′ly adv.cru′di·ty (kro͞o′dĭ-tē), crude′ness n.

crude

(kruːd) adj1. lacking taste, tact, or refinement; vulgar: a crude joke. 2. in a natural or unrefined state3. lacking care, knowledge, or skill: a crude sketch. 4. (prenominal) stark; blunt: the crude facts. 5. (Statistics) (of statistical data) unclassified or unanalysed6. archaic unripen (Elements & Compounds) short for crude oil[C14: from Latin crūdus bloody, raw; related to Latin cruor blood] ˈcrudely adv ˈcrudity, ˈcrudeness n

crude

(krud)

adj. crud•er, crud•est,
n. adj. 1. in a raw or unrefined state: crude sugar. 2. rudimentary or undeveloped. 3. showing a lack of polish, completeness, or skill; rough: a crude shelter. 4. lacking culture, refinement, etc.; vulgar: crude behavior. 5. blunt; stark. 6. Obs. unripe; not mature. n. 7. crude oil. [1350–1400; < Latin crūdus raw, bleeding, rough, akin to cruor blood from a wound; see raw] crude′ly, adv. crude′ness, n. syn: See raw.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	crude - a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbonscrude oil, fossil oil, petroleum, rock oil, oilatomic number 6, carbon, C - an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compoundsfossil fuel - fuel consisting of the remains of organisms preserved in rocks in the earth's crust with high carbon and hydrogen contentoil - a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with waterresid, residual oil - oil products that remain after petroleum has been distilled
Adj.	1.	crude - not carefully or expertly made; "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry"roughunskilled - not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency; "unskilled in the art of rhetoric"; "an enthusiastic but unskillful mountain climber"; "unskilled labor"; "workers in unskilled occupations are finding fewer and fewer job opportunities"; "unskilled workmanship"
	2.	crude - 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, grossindecent - offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters; "an earthy but not indecent story"; "an indecent gesture"
	3.	crude - not refined or processed; "unrefined ore"; "crude oil"unprocessed, unrefined
	4.	crude - 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, rudeearly - being or occurring at an early stage of development; "in an early stage"; "early forms of life"; "early man"; "an early computer"
	5.	crude - devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; "the blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality of the deadline"stark, bluntunconditional, unconditioned - not conditional; "unconditional surrender"
	6.	crude - not processed or subjected to analysis; "raw data"; "the raw cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics"rawunanalyzed - not analyzed or broken down for detailed examination; "an unanalyzed compound"; "unanalyzed data"

crude

adjective1. rough, undeveloped, basic, outline, unfinished, makeshift, sketchy, unformed a crude way of assessing the risk of heart disease2. simple, rudimentary, basic, primitive, coarse, clumsy, rough-and-ready, rough-hewn crude wooden carvings3. vulgar, dirty, rude, obscene, coarse, indecent, crass, tasteless, lewd, X-rated (informal), boorish, smutty, uncouth, gross a crude sense of humour
vulgar polished, subtle, refined, genteel, tasteful4. unrefined, natural, raw, unprocessed, unpolished, unmilled, unprepared 8.5 million tonnes of crude steel
unrefined processed, fine, prepared, polished, refined, fine-grained

crude

adjective1. In a natural state and still not prepared for use:native, raw, unprocessed, unrefined.2. Lacking in delicacy or refinement:barbarian, barbaric, boorish, churlish, coarse, crass, gross, ill-bred, indelicate, philistine, rough, rude, tasteless, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar.3. Lacking expert, careful craftsmanship:primitive, raw, rough, rude, unpolished.

Translations

原始的天然的未加工的简陋的粗糙的

crude

(kruːd) adjective1. unrefined. crude oil. 天然的，未加工的 天然的，未加工的 2. rough or primitive. a crude shelter. 粗糙的，原始的 粗糙的，原始的 ˈcrudeness noun 天然 天然ˈcrudity noun 粗糙 粗糙

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