crude oil

Questions about crude oil

What does crude oil mean?

crude oil means "a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons".

What is another word for crude oil?

Close synonyms include petroleum, crude, rock oil, fossil oil, oil. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crude oil a common word?

crude oil is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.