crude
/kɹuːd/
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Scotland/kɹʉd/
crude adjective: in a natural, untreated state. Also the ellipsis of crude oil.
Adjective
crude (comparative cruder, superlative crudest)
- In a natural, untreated state.
- crude oil
- Characterized by simplicity, especially something not carefully or expertly made.
- a crude shelter
- a crude estimate
- Synonyms:
- primitive, rough, rude, rudimentary
- Lacking concealing elements.
- a crude truth
- Lacking tact or taste.
- a crude remark
- You shouldn't use such crude language when talking to the bank manager.
- Not adjusted or further analyzed.
- Synonyms:
- raw
- Immature or unripe.
- Uncooked, raw.
- Her mete was very crude,
She had not wel endude; […]c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 77–78
- Her mete was very crude,
- Pertaining to the uninflected stem of a word.
Noun
crude (countable and uncountable, plural crudes)
- Any substance in its natural state.
Also used as
crude is also the ellipsis of crude oil.
crude meaning in Hindi, Telugu, Gujarati and Odia
crude in Hindi
- lacking tact or taste
- सड़कछाप saṛakchāp
crude in Telugu
- being in a natural state
- ముడి muḍi
- characterized by simplicity
- ముతక mutaka
- lacking tact or taste
- నాటు nāṭu
- statistics: in an unanalyzed form
- ముడి muḍi
crude in Gujarati
- ક્રુડ
crude in Odia
- ଅଶୋଧିତ
More languagesFewer languages
- crude in Arabic
- خَامّ ḵāmm
- crude in Persian
- خام xâm
- crude in Vietnamese
- thô
Examples of crude in a sentence
- In a typical plot, a ne'er-do-well young gentleman dupes his older relatives out of money, while lower-class rascals play cruder tricks on respectable citizens.1983, Wendy Griswold, “The Devil's Techniques: Cultural Legitimation and Social Change”, in American Sociological Review, volume 48, number...
- At first, there’s something almost disconcertingly crude about the sasquatch skins.2024 June 16, Wendy Ide, “Sasquatch Sunset review – brilliant bigfoot oddity is unexpectedly moving”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
Synonyms of crude
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Antonyms
Forms of crude
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | cruder |
| superlative | crudest |
| Noun | |
| plural | crudes |
Origin of crude
Doublet of crudo, which was borrowed from Italian, and (more distantly) raw through Proto-Indo-European.
Words formed from crude
Phrases with crude
Words that rhyme with crude
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- rood
- snood
- Jude
- denude
- extrude
- exude
- feud
- nude
- obtrude
- reclude
- stewed
- subdued
- transclude
- abrood
- delude
- hewed
- intrude
- oud
- pood
- screwed
- seclude
- skewed
- strewed
- thewed
- you'd
- 'tude
- ablude
- abstrude
- accrued
- allude
- blued
- boo'd
- booed
- brewed
- Bude
- chewed
- chud
- clued
- collude
- construed
- cooed
- crewed
- cued
- debuted
- dzud
- fod
- frood
- glued
Questions about crude
- What does crude mean?
- Crude means in a natural, untreated state.
- What is crude in Hindi?
- Crude in Hindi is सड़कछाप (saṛakchāp). See Crude meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use crude in a sentence?
- In a typical plot, a ne'er-do-well young gentleman dupes his older relatives out of money, while lower-class rascals play cruder tricks on respectable citizens.
- What part of speech is crude?
- Crude can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce crude?
- Crude is pronounced /kɹuːd/.
Words near crude in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: crude (page history and authors); crude (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); crude (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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