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crudesome

crudesome adjective: characterised or marked by crudeness.

Adjective

crudesome (comparative more crudesome, superlative most crudesome)

  1. Characterised or marked by crudeness.
    • That jungle apes, for ages long, / Roamed through the woods in motley throng, / Whilst struggling for some sort of speech / Better than crudesome howl and screech.1917, Sol Sunderland, Jungle Apes Abroad
    • It is important to remember this distinction for, while he had praised Indian worker in gold for producing 'beautiful design out of nothing but crudesome knots and spirals' in his essay 'A Joy For Ever' (1873), elsewhere he had criticized the abstract patterns in Indian products for not showing an...1992, Partha Mitter, Much Maligned Monsters

Forms of crudesome

comparativemore crudesome
superlativemost crudesome

Origin of crudesome

From crude + -some.

Questions about crudesome

What does crudesome mean?
Crudesome means characterised or marked by crudeness.
What part of speech is crudesome?
Crudesome is an adjective.

Words near crudesome in the dictionary

  1. crudenesses
  2. crudening
  3. crudens
  4. cruder
  5. crudes
  6. crudesome
  7. crudest
  8. Crudgington
  9. Crudine
  10. crudite
  11. crudites

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