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CRUDE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons
Synonyms:
crude; crude oil; fossil oil; oil; petroleum; rock oil
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("crude" is a kind of...):
fossil fuel (fuel consisting of the remains of organisms preserved in rocks in the earth's crust with high carbon and hydrogen content)
oil (a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water)
Meronyms (substance of "crude"):
atomic number 6; C; carbon (an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crude"):
resid; residual oil (oil products that remain after petroleum has been distilled)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not processed or subjected to analysis
Example:
only the crude vital statistics
Synonyms:
crude; raw
Classified under:
Similar:
unanalyzed (not analyzed or broken down for detailed examination)
Derivation:
crudity (a wild or unrefined state)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment
Example:
facing the stark reality of the deadline
Synonyms:
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Similar:
unconditional; unconditioned (not conditional)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
Example:
full of language so vulgar it should have been edited
Synonyms:
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Adjectives
Similar:
indecent (offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters)
Derivation:
crudeness; crudity (an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness
Example:
primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains
Synonyms:
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Adjectives
Similar:
early (being or occurring at an early stage of development)
Derivation:
crudeness; crudity (a wild or unrefined state)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Not refined or processed
Example:
crude oil
Synonyms:
crude; unprocessed; unrefined
Classified under:
Adjectives
Derivation:
crudeness (an unpolished unrefined quality)
crudity (a wild or unrefined state)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Not carefully or expertly made
Example:
rough carpentry
Synonyms:
crude; rough
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
unskilled (not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency)
Derivation:
crudeness (an unpolished unrefined quality)
Context examples:
I served as assistant while he probed and cleansed the passages made by the bullets, and I saw the two men endure his crude surgery without anæsthetics and with no more to uphold them than a stiff tumbler of whisky.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
That a man of the world, five-and-forty years of age, shrewd, honest, and acquainted with Courts, should be beguiled by such crude and coarse homage, amazed me, as it did all who knew him; but you who have seen much of life do not need to be told how often the strongest and noblest nature has its one inexplicable weakness, showing up the more obviously in contrast to the rest, as the dark stain looks the fouler upon the whitest sheet.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
