Crude
[kruːd] or [krud]
Definition
(adj.) not processed or subjected to analysis; 'raw data'; 'the raw cost of production'; 'only the crude vital statistics' .
(adj.) 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' .
(adj.) 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' .
(adj.) not carefully or expertly made; 'managed to make a crude splint'; 'a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them'; 'rough carpentry' .
Checked by Gardner--From WordNet
Definition
(superl.) In its natural state; not cooked or prepared by fire or heat; undressed; not altered, refined, or prepared for use by any artificial process; raw; as, crude flesh.
(superl.) Unripe; not mature or perfect; immature.
(superl.) Not reduced to order or form; unfinished; not arranged or prepared; ill-considered; immature.
(superl.) Undigested; unconcocted; not brought into a form to give nourishment.
(superl.) Having, or displaying, superficial and undigested knowledge; without culture or profundity; as, a crude reasoner.
(superl.) Harsh and offensive, as a color; tawdry or in bad taste, as a combination of colors, or any design or work of art.
Edited by Fred
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Raw, uncooked, undressed, in a raw state.[2]. Immature, unripe, harsh.[3]. Coarse, unrefined.[4]. Unpremeditated, indigested.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Raw, undigested, unconsidered, half-studied, harsh, unshaped, unchastened,unfinished, unrefined, ill-prepared
ANT:Well-prepared, well-digested, well-considered, well-studied, ripe,well-adapted, well-proportioned, well-expressed, classical, finished, refined,artistic, elaborate, highlywrought
Typed by Ann
Definition
adj. raw unprepared: not reduced to order or form: unfinished: undigested: immature.—adv. Crude′ly.—ns. Crude′ness; Crud′ity rawness: unripeness: that which is crude.—adj. Crud′y (Shak.) crude raw.
Typist: Lucinda
Examples
- It is said that as far back as 1835 Stratingh and Becker, of Groeningen, and in 1836 Botto, of Turin, constructed crude electric carriages. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Only by starting with crude material and subjecting it to purposeful handling will he gain the intelligence embodied in finished material. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Hadn't they better be animals, simple animals, crude, violent, ANYTHING, rather than this self-consciousness, this incapacity to be spontaneous. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- How is Crude Rubber Received Here? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Our first crude patent law was enacted in 1790, but not until 1836 was the present system adopted. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Scattered over the country one still finds isolated charcoal kilns, crude earthen receptacles, in which wood thus deprived of air was allowed to smolder and form charcoal. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Food--that was the problem of those long tired years which dragged through the ages, when nearly everyone was a farmer, and a farmer with crude tools held in his hands. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But everything in the Roman state was earlier, cruder, and clumsier; the injustices were more glaring, the conflicts harsher. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Reduced to its barest, crudest terms, the proposition of magnetic separation is simplicity itself. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The harnesses of the farmer's and labouring man's horses a century ago, when they were fortunate enough to own horses, were of the crudest description. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The crudest of writers could invent nothing more crude. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- In general, however, the salt made from crude salt rock is only fit for the crudest commercial uses. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The small arm of the previous period, the old Brown Bess, used in the British army for 150 years, was a muzzle-loading, flint-lock musket of the crudest make. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The indicating instruments were of the crudest construction, consisting of two voltmeters connected by pressure wires to the centre of electrical distribution. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Checker: Yale