[
UK
/kɹˈuːd/
]
[ US /ˈkɹud/ ]
[ US /ˈkɹud/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment
facing the stark reality of the deadline
the crude facts
the blunt truth -
not refined or processed
crude oil
unrefined ore -
not processed or subjected to analysis
only the crude vital statistics
raw data
the raw cost of production -
not carefully or expertly made
managed to make a crude splint
rough carpentry
a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them -
conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
coarse language
a vulgar gesture
a crude joke
a revoltingly gross expletive
full of language so vulgar it should have been edited
an earthy sense of humor
crude behavior -
belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness
primitive movies of the 1890s
primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains
the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man
NOUN
- a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons
How To Use crude In A Sentence
- It was a simple rectangle of crudely mounded basalt rocks, a distinctive arrangement reminiscent of the way Samoans and other Polynesians marked their dead in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- Despite Cairn's mixed results, the Arctic waters off the coast of Greenland remain enticing for oil companies, where experts estimate that 4. 1bn barrels of untapped crude lies. Cairn Energy fails to find enough oil off the coast of Greenland
- At the head, they may have some explosives which are triggered by a crude fuze consisting of a bullet. Israeli TV airs call to father after children killed « Antiwar.com Blog
- There was a even an issue cover I think, or at least some page art we had commissioned, showing Krugman as a crude pitchman or something.
- Everyone became equally loud, crude and garrulous, the technically sober behaving identically to the genuinely drunk.
- On that day people give each other sugar skulls with a name label crudely pasted on the forehead.
- I think we have to distinguish those narratives which crudely manipulate fear or repulsion and disgust from that which Lovecraft correctly calls ‘the weird tale’.
- It is the worst return since 2002 and follows a dramatic slide in global crude oil prices. The Sun
- The employer - he really deserves to be named - was told in the crudest language possible where to stick the job.
- Costs have been cut by changing the crude mix and switching the plant's boilers to burn gas rather than more expensive fuel oil. Times, Sunday Times
