Crude

Pronunciation: krųd

a.	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. 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, 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.
	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.

Noun	1.	crude - a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons Synonyms: crude oil, fossil oil, petroleum, rock oil
Adj.	1.	crude - not carefully or expertly made; "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry" Synonyms: rough
	2.	crude - 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" Synonyms: earthy, coarse, vulgar, gross
	3.	crude - not refined or processed; "unrefined ore"; "crude oil" Synonyms: unprocessed, unrefined
	4.	crude - 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" Synonyms: primitive, rude
	5.	crude - devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; "the blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality of the deadline" Synonyms: stark, blunt
	6.	crude - not processed or subjected to analysis; "raw data"; "the raw cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics" Synonyms: raw

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