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say it: krood
crude is an adjective and noun meaning "not carefully or expertly made". It carries 7 recorded senses.
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”
devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment
“the blunt truth”
“the crude facts”
“facing the stark reality of the deadline”
not processed or subjected to analysis
“raw data”
“the raw cost of production”
“only the crude vital statistics”
a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for crude come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.