Hypertext Webster Gateway: "crude"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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}]
n : a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons [syn: {petroleum},
{crude oil}, {coal oil}, {rock oil}, {fossil oil}]
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