Definitions for crude

Overview of noun crude

The noun crude has 1 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)

1. petroleum, crude oil, crude, rock oil, fossil oil, oil

(a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons)

Overview of adj crude

The adj crude has 6 senses? (first 2 from tagged texts)

1. (6) crude, rough

(not carefully or expertly made; "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry")

2. (2) crude, earthy, gross, vulgar

(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")

3. unrefined, unprocessed, crude

(not refined or processed; "unrefined ore"; "crude oil")

4. crude, primitive, rude

(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")

5. blunt, crude, stark

(devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; "the blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality of the deadline")

6. crude, raw

(not processed or subjected to analysis; "raw data"; "the raw cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics")