/kɹuːd/, /kɹʉd/
OriginFrom Middle English crude, borrowed from Latin crūdus (“raw, bloody, uncooked, undigested, crude”). Doublet of crudo, from Italian. Cognate with Old English hrēaw (“raw, uncooked”) via Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“raw blood”); more at raw.
- In a natural, untreated state.
- Characterized by simplicity, especially something not carefully or expertly made.
“a crude shelter”
“a crude estimate”
“a crude guess”
- Lacking concealing elements.
- Lacking tact or taste.
“a crude remark”
“You shouldn't use such crude language when talking to the bank manager.”
“At first, there’s something almost disconcertingly crude about the sasquatch skins.”
- Not adjusted or further analyzed.
- archaicImmature or unripe.
- obsoleteUncooked, raw.
“Her mete was very crude,
She had not wel endude; […]”
- Pertaining to the uninflected stem of a word.
- countable, uncountableAny substance in its natural state.
- abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountableEllipsis of crude oil.
“The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsy”
Formscruder(comparative) · crudest(superlative) · crudes(plural)