Crude \Crude\ (kr[udd]d), a. [Compar. Cruder (-[~e]r); superl. Crudest.]

[L. crudus raw; akin to cruor blood (which flows from a wound). See Raw, and cf. Cruel.]

1. 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. "Common crude salt." --Boyle. [1913 Webster]

Molding to its will each successive deposit of the crude materials. --I. Taylor. [1913 Webster]

2. Unripe; not mature or perfect; immature. [1913 Webster]

I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude. --Milton. [1913 Webster]

3. Not reduced to order or form; unfinished; not arranged or prepared; ill-considered; immature. "Crude projects." --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]

Crude, undigested masses of suggestion, furnishing rather raw materials for composition. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]

The originals of Nature in their crude Conception. --Milton. [1913 Webster]

4. Undigested; unconcocted; not brought into a form to give nourishment. "Crude and inconcoct." --Bacon. [1913 Webster]

5. Having, or displaying, superficial and undigested knowledge; without culture or profundity; as, a crude reasoner. [1913 Webster]

6. (Paint.) Harsh and offensive, as a color; tawdry or in bad taste, as a combination of colors, or any design or work of art. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

225 Moby Thesaurus words for "crude": Doric, abhorrent, abominable, amateurish, arrested, avgas, backward, barbaric, barbarous, barnyard, base, beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt, blatant, blinding, blue, blunt, boorish, brazen, brazenfaced, brusque, cacophonous, caddish, cloddish, clodhopping, clumsy, coarse, colorful, contemptible, crass, crude oil, despicable, detestable, dirty, disgusting, doggerel, dysphemistic, earthy, embryonic, ethyl, ethyl gas, execrable, extravagant, fetid, filthy, flagrant, flaring, flashy, flaunting, forbidding, fossil oil, foul, fulsome, garish, gas, gasoline, gaudy, glaring, gorgeous, graceless, gross, harsh, hateful, heinous, high-octane gas, high-test, ignoble, ignorant, ill-bred, immature, improper, impure, in bad taste, in embryo, in ovo, in the rough, inadequate, inconcinnate, inconcinnous, inconsiderate, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, ineffective, inelegant, inexpert, infelicitous, inferior, insensible, insensitive, kerosene, lead-free gas, loathsome, loud, loutish, louty, low, low-lead gas, lowbred, lurid, malodorous, mephitic, meretricious, miasmal, miasmic, motor oil, nasty, native, natural, nauseating, noisome, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, obtrusive, odious, offensive, ore, original, outlandish, overbright, oversimple, paraffin, petrol, petroleum, poor, premium gas, prentice, primitive, rare, raunchy, raw, raw material, rebarbative, red, reductionistic, reductive, regular, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, ribald, rich ore, rich vein, risque, rock oil, rough, rough diamond, roughcast, roughhewn, rude, rudimental, rudimentary, run-of-mine, rustic, savage, screaming, sensational, shameless, shrieking, sickening, simplistic, smutty, spectacular, stinking, stunted, tactless, tasteless, tawdry, unanalyzed mass, unbaked, unblown, unboiled, uncivil, uncooked, uncourtly, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, uncut, undercooked, underdeveloped, underdone, undeveloped, undignified, undressed, unenlightened, uneuphonious, unfashioned, unfelicitous, unfeminine, unfinished, unformed, ungenteel, ungentle, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, ungraded, unhewn, unlabored, unladylike, unlicked, unlicked cub, unmatured, unpolished, unprocessed, unproficient, unrefined, unseemly, unskilled, unsolicitous, unsophisticated, unsorted, untaught, untrained, untreated, unworked, unwrought, vile, virgin soil, vulgar

Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
 

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

noun

a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons [syn: petroleum, crude oil, rock oil, fossil oil]

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

Crude \Crude\ (kr[udd]d), a. [Compar. Cruder (-[~e]r); superl. Crudest.]

[L. crudus raw; akin to cruor blood (which flows from a wound). See Raw, and cf. Cruel.]

1. 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. ``Common crude salt.'' --Boyle.

Molding to its will each successive deposit of the crude materials. --I. Taylor.

2. Unripe; not mature or perfect; immature.

I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude. --Milton.

3. Not reduced to order or form; unfinished; not arranged or prepared; ill-considered; immature. ``Crude projects.'' --Macaulay.

Crude, undigested masses of suggestion, furnishing rather raw materials for composition. --De Quincey.

The originals of Nature in their crude Conception. --Milton.

4. Undigested; unconcocted; not brought into a form to give nourishment. ``Crude and inconcoct.'' --Bacon.

5. Having, or displaying, superficial and undigested knowledge; without culture or profundity; as, a crude reasoner.

6. (Paint.) Harsh and offensive, as a color; tawdry or in bad taste, as a combination of colors, or any design or work of art.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)