crude meaning and definition

CRUDE noun

Definition of crude (noun)

1. a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons
   • synonyms: crude oil, fossil oil, oil, petroleum, rock oil

CRUDE adjective

Definition of crude (adjective)

1. not carefully or expertly made
   • "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry"
   • synonyms: rough
2. 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"
   • synonyms: earthy, gross, vulgar
3. not refined or processed
   • "unrefined ore"; "crude oil"
   • synonyms: unprocessed, unrefined
   • antonym: processed
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"
   • synonyms: primitive, rude
5. devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment
   • "the blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality of the deadline"
   • synonyms: blunt, stark
6. not processed or subjected to analysis
   • "raw data"; "the raw cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics"
   • synonyms: raw