Definition of cruder Cruder
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What does cruder mean?
Part of speech
🔤- cruder, adjective, comparative of crude.
WordNet
Adjectivecrude, cruder, crudest |
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| 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" | ||
| primitive, rude | ||
| early at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time; "early morning"; "an early warning"; "early diagnosis"; "an early death"; "took early retirement"; "an early spring"; "early varieties of peas and tomatoes mature before most standard varieties" | ||
| 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" | ||
| earthy, gross, vulgar | ||
| indecent offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters; "an earthy but not indecent story"; "an indecent gesture" | ||
| crude - not processed or subjected to analysis; "raw data"; "the raw cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics" | ||
| raw | ||
| unanalyzed not analyzed or broken down for detailed examination; "an unanalyzed compound"; "unanalyzed data" | ||
| crude - not carefully or expertly made; "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry" | ||
| rough | ||
| unskilled not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency; "unskilled in the art of rhetoric"; "an enthusiastic but unskillful mountain climber"; "unskilled labor"; "workers in unskilled occupations are finding fewer and fewer job opportunities"; "unskilled workmanship" | ||
| crude - not refined or processed; "unrefined ore"; "crude oil" | ||
| unrefined, unprocessed | ||
| crude - devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; "the blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality of the deadline" | ||
| blunt, stark | ||
| unconditioned, unconditional not established by conditioning or learning; "an unconditioned reflex" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- crude (Noun)
Any substance in its natural state. - crude (Noun)
crude Crude oil . - crude (Adjective)
Being in a natural state. - crude (Adjective)
Characterized by simplicity, especially something not carefully or expertly made. - crude (Adjective)
Lacking concealing elements. - crude (Adjective)
Lacking tact or taste. - crude (Adjective)
Being in an unanalyzed form. - crude (Adjective)
Immature or unripe.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- crude (superl.)
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. - crude (superl.)
Unripe; not mature or perfect; immature. - crude (superl.)
Not reduced to order or form; unfinished; not arranged or prepared; ill-considered; immature. - crude (superl.)
Undigested; unconcocted; not brought into a form to give nourishment. - crude (superl.)
Having, or displaying, superficial and undigested knowledge; without culture or profundity; as, a crude reasoner. - crude (superl.)
Harsh and offensive, as a color; tawdry or in bad taste, as a combination of colors, or any design or work of art.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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crude
krōōd, adj. raw, unprepared: not reduced to order or form: unfinished: undigested: immature.—adv. Crude′ly.—ns. Crude′ness; Crud′ity, rawness: unripeness: that which is crude.—adj. Crud′y (Shak.), crude, raw. [L. crudus, raw.]
Part of speech
🔤- crude, noun, singular of crudes.
- crude, adjective.
