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Crude

Definition: Crude

Crude

Adjective

1. Not carefully or expertly made; "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry".

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".

3. Not refined or processed; "unrefined ore"; "crude oil".

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".

5. Devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; "the blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality of the deadline".

6. Not processed or subjected to analysis; "raw data"; "the raw cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics".

Noun

1. A dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "crude" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Crude \Crude\ (kr[udd]d), adjective. [Comparative Cruder (-[~e]r); superlative Crudest.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Crude

DomainDefinition

Chemical Industry

Naturally occurring mineral oil consisting essentially of many types of hydrocarbons. Crude oil may be of paraffinic, asphaltic or mixed base, according to the presence of paraffin wax, bitumen, or both paraffin wax and bitumen in the residue after atmospheric distillation. Source: European Union. (references)
 Degassed and dewatered crude oil. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

A substance in its natural unprocessed state. Crude ore or crude oil, for example. In a natural state; not cooked or prepared by fire or heat; not altered or prepared for use by any process; not refined. Syn. for raw;crude oil. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Crude

Synonyms: blunt (adj), coarse (adj), crude(a) (adj), earthy (adj), gross (adj), primitive (adj), raw (adj), rough (adj), rude (adj), stark(a) (adj), unprocessed (adj), unrefined (adj), vulgar (adj), coal oil (n), crude oil (n), fossil oil (n), petroleum (n), rock oil (n). (additional references)
Antonym: refined (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Crude

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Imperfection

Adjective: imperfect; not perfect; deficient, defective; faulty, unsound, tainted; out of order, out of tune; cracked, leaky; sprung; warped; (distort); lame; injured; (deteriorated); peccant; (bad); frail; (weak); inadequate; (insufficient); crude; (unprepared); incomplete; found wanting; below par; short-handed; below its full strength, under its full strength, below its full complement.

Incompleteness

Adjective: incomplete; imperfect; unfinished; uncompleted; (see complete; ); defective, deficient, wanting, lacking, failing; in default, in arrear; short of; hollow, meager, lame, halfand-half, perfunctory, sketchy; crude; (unprepared).

Inelegance

Adjective: inelegant, graceless, ungraceful; harsh, abrupt; dry, stiff, cramped, formal, guinde; forced, labored; artificial, mannered, ponderous; awkward, uncourtly, unpolished; turgid; affected, euphuistic; barbarous, uncouth, grotesque, rude, crude, halting; offensive to ears polite.

Nonpreparation

Adjective: unprepared; without preparation; incomplete; rudimental, embryonic, abortive; immature, unripe, kachcha, raw, green, crude; coarse; rough cast, rough hewn; in the rough; unhewn, unformed, unfashioned, unwrought, unlabored, unblown, uncooked, unboiled, unconcocted, unpolished.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Crude

English words defined with "crude": Argol, artlesslybarbarian, barbaric, barilla, Black salts, Blacksalter, blunt, boorChrysogen, churl, coarse, coarsened, Coerulignone, crepe rubber, crudelyearthy, eolithFaints, Fluid extractgasoline bomb, glasswort, Glover's tower, Goth, grosshovel, hut, hutchIncult, Indigest, Indigested, Indigo brown, Indigo red, inexpertlyjuggernautkali, kelpwortLigroinMelado, Molotov cocktail, Muck ironname calling, namesObtrusion, Oil of turpentine, oil slick, oil tanker, oilerparaffin, paraffin wax, peasant, petrol bomb, pig, pig iron, primitive, proration, Pyroxanthin, Pyroxylicraw, refinery, Rhigolene, robust, rough, rough-and-ready, rudeSalsola kali, Salsola soda, saltwort, savage, Sericin, shack, shanty, soda ash, starktank ship, tanker, tike, Tincal, To tone down, Tridecane, Tutenag, Tutty, tykeuncivilised, uncivilizedvulgarwildXyletic, XyliteZaffer, zip gun. (references)
Specialty definitions using "crude": crude mica, crude petroleum, crude tartar, crude tester, crude waxpretreated crude oilreduced crude oiltopped crude. (references)
Etymologies containing "crude": Crudity. (references)

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Modern Usage: Crude

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Crude noisemaker (Superman II; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster)

I'm the one with the hangover. B-12, B-Complex, Crude Liver, and a generous jolt of adrenal cortex (S.O.B.; writing credit: Blake Edwards)

Don't you know their lyrics can be kinda crude. When it's on my stereo I always hit the mute, But I'll have to admit, the Indian's kind of cute (Whose Line Is It Anyway?; writing credit: Dan Patterson; Mark Leveson)

You are rude, crude, and thoroughly unattractive (All of Me; writing credit: Edwin Davis; Phil Alden Robinson)

Crude and slow, clansman (Highlander; writing credit: Gregory Widen, Peter Bellwood, and Larry Ferguson.)

Lyrics

They're rude, crude and vile (I Can't Watch This; performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic)

Well, there came a bubblin' crude (Money For Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies; performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic)

Movie/TV Titles

Oklahoma Crude (1973)

Devil's Crude (1971)

Texas Crude (1995)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Crude

DomainTitle

References

  • The 2000 Import and Export Market for Soft, Crude, Refined, and Purified Fixed Vegetable Oils in Trinidad and Tobago (reference)

  • The World Market for Inedible Crude Materials except Fuels: A 2003 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  • The 2002 World Forecasts of Soft, Crude, Refined, and Purified Fixed Vegetable Oils Export Supplies (reference)

  • The 2003 World Forecasts of Inedible Crude Materials except Fuels Export Supplies (reference)

  • The 2000-2005 Outlook for Crude Petroleum Extraction and Natural Gas Extraction in Asia (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Crassy the Crude Beastie: A Little Beastie Book About Good Manners (Good Behavior Builders) (reference)

  • Crude Dominance (reference)

  • Crude Fever (reference)

  • Crude Kill: MacK Bolan Executioner Number Fifty Nine (reference)

  • Crude Power (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  • Imports And Exports Of Crude Oil And Petroleum Products (reference)

  • International Crude Oil Market Handbook (reference)

  • Monthly Crude Oil Production (reference)

  • Us Crude Oil Natural Gas And Natural Gas Liquids Reserves (reference)

    (more periodical examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Crude

Illustrations:
Crude

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Photo Album: Crude

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Crude materials from forest and ocean arrive at the NCI Frederick Cancer Research and Development Facility, where an extraction laboratory prepares samples of the natural substances for chemical analysis. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Station NIU during reobservation of World Longitude stations Looking for evidence of continental drift Instruments too crude to measure small earth movements Astro party of Joseph Lushene. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Grinding and pressing crude spermaceti for removal of taut-pressed oil. Interior view of oil refinery. Filling bottles with sperm oil. In: "Aquatic Products in Arts and Industries" by Charles H. Stevenson. Report of the Commissioner for the Year Ending June 30, 1902. P. 200, Plate 14. Credit: Fisheries.

An oil rig blew out spewing crude oil into Timbalier Bay. The rig is surrounded a boom to contain the oil. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Figure 70. Thoulet device for measuring the density of minerals by means of an iodine solution. The method used in image ship4445 was very crude but this device gave a real measurement, which although a long and delicate process, could be very precise. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Caption: Settling Tanks for Crude Phenol; March 1, 1915; {10.350/138} (jpg).

[Shabbily dressed pregnant woman sits in crude shelter]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

View on board, looking forward over the boat deck from the secondary conn, while the ship was at the New York Navy Yard after her last overhaul, 29 May 1942. Crude # "1" in white circle (center) marks the location of the 5"/25 loading practice machine. Other notable items include: boats and boat cradle in foreground; four Curtiss SOC "Seagull" floatplanes atop the catapults; crated food piled by the after smokestack; and USS Marblehead (CL-12) at left. Credit: NAVY.

Free and happy in his crude prosperity--life in the sand belt of North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress.

Stock of crude salt. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Crude
 

"Oilfield pump-jack 2" by Tammy Sharp
Commentary: "Oilfield pump-jack, pumping crude oil. ."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Crude".

PlayCaptionPlayCaption
Hot rod; muscle car; engine; rev; revving; 8-cylinder; fast; drag racing; car racing; brash; brassy; brazen; chintzy; coarse; crass; crude; flamboyant; flashy; garish; gaudy; glaring; lurid; meretricious; obnoxious; obtrusive; ostentatious; raucous; rude.Rude; disgusting; vulgar; crude; burp; awkward; backward; barnyard; boorish; cheap; cloddish; clumsy; coarse; crass; dirty; earthy; filthy; foul; grody; gross; ignorant; ill-bred; indecent; indelicate; inelegant; insensible; lewd; loud; loud-mouthed; lout.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Crude

AuthorQuotation

Friedrich Nietzsche

Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Crude

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Kutapressin is a crude extract from pig's liver. (references)

It is a crude measure of the strength and frequency of contractions. (references)

Unfortunately, such estimates are crude, because surveillance for cases of the disease is not uniformly performed. (references)

Business

It is responsible for extracting Romanian crude oil output. (references)

Saudi Aramco is the world's largest producer of crude oil and natural gas liquids. (references)

OIL TERMINAL SA Constanta receives the imported crude oil and fuel along with the oil products for export. (references)

Civil Liberties

Nicaragua

Police fired tear gas canisters and rubber bullets at the demonstrators, who retaliated with stones and crude pipe bombs. (references)

Economic History

China

Therefore, crude oil import will continue to grow each year. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

Supplies include mostly crude oil to Côte d'Ivoire's refinery. (references)

Minorities

Russia

However, traditionally anti-Semitic publications with large distributions, such as the newspaper Zavtra, while still pursuing such anti-Semitic themes as the portrayal of Russian oligarchs as exclusively Jewish, appeared to be more careful than in the past about using crude anti-Semitic language. (references)

Political Economy

BAHRAIN

Bahrain also imports another 200,000 b/d of Saudi crude for refining. (references)

Colombia

Crude oil, coal, coffee, and cut flowers are the principal legal exports. (references)

Trade

Slovak Rep

Non-automatic import licenses are required for water, black coal, brown coal, crude oil and natural gas as well as beer. (references)

Malaysia

In August 2000, the government authorized designated palm oil exporters to export crude palm oil duty free in order to reduce excess stocks and raise prices. (references)

Philippines

Executive Order No. 314, effective November 8, 2000, mandated a three-month suspension of a three percent import tariff on crude oil and most refined petroleum products. (references)

Travel

Ghana

These prices do not remain fixed throughout the year but are revised as crude prices fluctuate. (references)

Nicaragua

Puerto Sandino, also located on the Pacific Coast, is primarily used for the import of crude petroleum and bulk cargo, such as fertilizer, clinker and steel. (references)

Women

Guinea

Despite diseases resulting from crude and unsanitary surgical instruments and deaths resulting from the practice, the tradition continues, seriously affecting many women's lives. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

SCARIFICATION, n. A form of penance practised by the mediaeval pious. The rite was performed, sometimes with a knife, sometimes with a hot iron, but always, says Arsenius Asceticus, acceptably if the penitent spared himself no pain nor harmless disfigurement. Scarification, with other crude penances, has now been superseded by benefaction. The founding of a library or endowment of a university is said to yield to the penitent a sharper and more lasting pain than is conferred by the knife or iron, and is therefore a surer means of grace. There are, however, two grave objections to it as a penitential method: the good that it does and the taint of justice.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Crude

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Woodrow Wilson

1913-1921There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to succeed and be great.

Gerald Ford

1974-1977This surplus capacity enabled us to influence both supplies and prices of crude oil throughout the world.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Crude

"Crude" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.34% of the time. "Crude" is used about 1,263 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)98.34%1,2426,298
Noun (singular)1.66%2176,261
                    Total100.00%1,263N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Crude

Expressions using "crude": crude alcohol crude death rate crude gas Crude herb moxibustion crude iron crude marriage rate crude mica crude milk crude oil crude ore crude petroleum crude reality crude speech crude sperm oil crude steel equivalent crude steel production crude steel unit crude steel weight crude tall oil crude tartar crude turpentine crude wax naphthene base crude naphthenic crude pretreated crude oil reduced crude oil topped crude ultra large crude carrier very large crude carrier. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "crude": crude-oil.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Crude

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

crude oil

341

crude palm oil

7

crude oil price

167

crude oil pricing

7

crude joke

39

carrier crude

6

crude

36

oklahoma crude

6

crude oil future

36

assay crude

6

address buyer crude email oil seller worldwide

20

crude oil production

6

crude humor

17

crude oil use

5

brent crude

16

crude picture

5

crude oil buyer

14

crude current oil price

5

crude price

14

crude texas west

5

brent crude oil

13

crude oil seller

5

crude production steel

10

crude oil saudi

5

canadian crude separator

10

crude oil tanker

4

crude oil quality

10

crude oil trading

4

crude future market ny oil

10

crude historical oil price

4

crude oil news

9

crude oil picture

4

crosse crude

9

crude oil storage tank

4

crude t shirt

8

bran corn crude

4

crude oil refining

8

bran corn crude recipe

4

crude future maket ny oil

8

crude future

4

construction crude oil tank

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Crude

Language Translations for "crude"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

rou (raw, rough, unrefined, unwrought). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

i vrazhdë (abrupt, austere, bad tempered, boeotian, boorish, brutal, brutish, churlish, clownish, coarse, discordant, dissonant, earthy, fretful, grave, gross, hard, hard-fisted, harsh, heavy-handed, ill natured, low-bred, morose, murky, robustious, rough, rough spoken, rude, scurrilous, severe, stern, sullen, surly, truculent, uncivil, unfinished, unhandsome, unmannerly), i patakt (clumsy, gauche, indelicate, indiscreet, tactless, tasteless), i papastruar (unclean), i papërpunuar (green, home-bred, inelaborate, native, rough, undressed), i gjallë (above ground, alive, animate, animated, breathing, brisk, buckish, buoyant, busy, canty, colorful, colourful, dapper, dashing, dynamic, elastic, erect, fresh, frisky, glowing, graphic, graphical, green, humming, intense, jocund, keen, larky, live, lively, living, mercurial, nimble, noisy, perky, pert, picturesque, playful, poignant, quick, raw, red blooded, saucy, skittish, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, spry, uncooked, vital, vivacious, vivid), i ashpër (argute, austere, biting, bluff, bluffy, Brant, bristly, brusque, churlish, coarse, ding-dong, dour, draconian, draconic, gravelly, grim, gruff, hard, harsh, ill, ill natured, inclement, keen, malevolent, pipy, raucous, rigid, rigorous, rough, rough and ready, rude, savage, scabrous, scathing, scratchy, severe, shaggy, slashing, smart, stern, strict, tough, truculent, uncharitable, unkind, unmerciful, violent, wiry). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فج غير ناضج, ‏فظ (abrupt, blunt, boor, boorish, brusque, brutish, burly, chuffy, churlish, clownish, coarse, country, crusty, curt, discourteous, earthy, grievous, gross, gruff, hairy, harsh, hoarse, ill mannered, impolite, indelicate, low, mannerless, obdurate, off hand, plug ugly, precipitous, rough, rough and ready, rude, ruffianly, rugged, rustic, savage, scathe, serious, shaggy, short, sour, surly, uncivil, uncouth, unkind, unmannerly, unprintable), ‏نفط خام, ‏صريح (bare, bluff, candid, categorical, communicative, direct, downright, expansive, explicit, flat, forthcoming, forthright, frank, genuine, guileless, honest, ingenuous, open, open-hearted, outright, outspoken, overt, palpable, plain, plain spoken, plump, point blank, pronounced, raw, round, simple-hearted, steady, straight, straightforward, transparent, unreserved, unvarnished), ‏خشن (boorish, bristly, coarse, gross, gruff, ill mannered, impolite, indelicate, jagged, mannerless, plebeian, rasping, raucous, rough, roughen, rowdy, rude, rugged, rustic, sand, scabrous, scratchy, stiff, surly, tough, toughen, uncivil, uncouth, vulgar), ‏جلف (blunt, boorish, coarse, gruff, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, rough, roughneck, rude, rude fellow, scuff, uncivil, uncouth), ‏جاف (arid, becoming dry, boorish, brittle, churlish, curt, dehydrated, desiccated, dried, dry, dryish, gross, harsh, objectionable, rough, surly, unceremonious, uncivil, uncouth, ungracious, wild), ‏بسيط (attic, chaste, down to earth, elementary, homely, honest, innocent, low-browed, lowly, mere, modest, naive, natural, pastoral, petty, plain, primitive, provincial, rustic, silly, simple, simple minded, sparing, straightforward, unaffected, unpretentious, unsophisticated, unvarnished, with distortion). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

суров нефт (naphtha), суров (austere, coarse, dour, draconian, flinty, green, grim, hard, harsh, iron, iron-bound, raw, rigorous, rough, rude, rugged, severe, smart, stiff, uncharitable, uncooked, uncouth, unpitying, unseasoned), груб (abrupt, bearish, boeotian, brusque, callous, churlish, clownish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, common, cubbish, curt, earthy, feral, glaring, graceless, gross, gruff, hard boiled, harsh, heavy, hoggish, homespun, horny, loutish, low, material, outlandish, raspy, raucous, raw, rough, rough-shod, rowdy, rude, rugged, russet, rusty, short, surly, tough, uncivil, uncouth, wild and woolly), необработен (raw, rough, rude, uncultivated, uncultured, undressed, waste), необмислен (blind, hasty, heedless, ill-considered, ill-judged, impetuous, imprudent, incautious, inconsiderate, light hearted, light-headed, overbold, precipitate, precipitatious, rash, reckless, snap, thoughtless, unadvised, unconsidered, unguarded, unthinking, unwary, wild). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

粗糙 (gruff), 粗暴 (Outrageous, rowdy, rudeness), (coarse, rough, rude, thick, unfinished, vulgar). (various references)

   

Czech

  

surový (Brown, brutal, cruel), sprostý (dirty, dunghill, foul, foul-mouthed, gross, indecent, larrikin, mean, nasty, obscene, plebeian, poor, rowdy, scurrilous, squalid, vulgar), přibližný (approximate), nejapný (clumsy, gauche, inane, inept), nafta (naphtha, oil, oil fuel), křiklavý (flagrant, garish, gaudy, glaring, jazzy, loud, startling, vociferous), humpolácký, hulvátský (boorish, churlish), hrubý (abusive, blue, boorish, brut, brutish, coarse, coarsened, crass, foul-mouthed, grating, gross, gruff, harsh, howling, knockabout, leathery, low, outrageous, raw, rough, rough and ready, ruddy, rude, rustic, scabrous, sylvan, uncouth, uneven, unmannerly, unprintable, vulgar), drsný (abrasive, broad, coarse, grating, gruff, harsh, heavy, inclement, intemperate, leathery, offhand, ragged, raucous, raw, rigorous, rough, ruddy, scabrous, severe, stark, unkind). (various references)

   

Danish

  

råolie (crude oil, crude petroleum, natural oil). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

ruw (abusive, brute, coarse, harsh, rough), onbewerkt (raw, rough, unrefined, unwrought), onbehouwen (raw, rough, uneducated, unrefined, unwrought), grof (abusive, coarse, common, everyday, harsh, raw, rough, unrefined, unwrought, vulgar), cru (raw, rough, unrefined, unwrought), bot (abrupt, addled, blunt, bone, foolish, raw, rough, stupid, unrefined, unwrought). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

maleleganta (coarse), maldelikata (coarse, harsh), kruda (raw, rough). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

ráur (raw, rough, unrefined, unwrought). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

ناپخته , زمخت (Blowsy, Blowzy, Churlish, Clumsy, Coarse, Crass, Gross, Hard, Impolite, Raucous, Rough, Rude, Rugged, Tough), خام (Halfbaked, Impolite, Raw, Rude, Simple). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

raaka (brutal, coarse, green, not ripe, raw, rough, rude, unrefined, unripe, unwrought, yard). (various references)

   

French

  

brut (crude oil, crude petroleum, pretreated crude oil), vulgaire, cru, grossier (crass). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

ierdoalje (crude oil). (various references)

   

German

  

roh (barbarous, brute, earthy, low-bred, ordinary, rare, raw, rough, roughly, ruffianly, uncooked, undressed, unhewn, unrefined, untreated, unwrought), grob (abrupt, abusive, blunt, bluntly, bold, boorish, broad, broadly, coarse, coarsely, crass, dirty, earthy, glaring, gross, gruffly, harsh, heavy, rough, roughly, rude, rudely, rugged, tough, truculently, uncouth, unsubtle), Rohöl (crude oil). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κακόγουστοσ (vulgar), βάναυσοσ (churlish, coarse, rough, roughneck, rude), ωμόσ (raw), ωμός (raw, uncooked), χονδροειδής (blatant, coarse), άξεστοσ (boor, boorish, lout, raw, rough, uncouth, unpolished, unrefined), άτεχνοσ (artless, awkward, coarse, inartistic, splay), ακατέργαστοσ (raw, rough, unwrought), ακατέργαστος (untreated), αργό πετρέλαιο (crude oil, crude petroleum, natural oil, pretreated crude oil). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

גלמי (inchoate, pupal, raw, rude), גלום (amorphous, concealed, hidden, inchoate, latent, mantle, raw, robe, wrapped in), גס (bulky, clumsy, coarse, impolite, indelicate, lubricious, rough, rude), בור (hole, ignorant, illiterate, lout, uncultivated, unlettered). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

éretlen (green, immature, not ripe, puerile, raw, schoolboy logic, tender, underripe, unfledged, unripe, vealy), nyers (assertive, blunt, brusque, burly, coarse, concrete, ecru, feral, gruff, harsh, pure, ramage, raw, rough cast, rough spoken, rude, rugged, surly, undressed), mosatlan (unwashed), megmunkálatlan (raw, rough, unlabored, unlaboured, unworked), kőolaj (crude oil, mineral oil, paraffin, paraffine, petroleum, rock oil), goromba (bouncy, brusque, chuff, churlish, coarse, foulmouthed, graceless, gross, hirsute, rough, rude, ruffianly, surly), finomítatlan (unrefined). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

kasar (abrupt, abusive, artless, blunt, boorish, broad, brutal, brutish, crass, curt, disrespectful, gruff, menial, raw, rude, unkind, vulgar), belum selesai (unfinished). (various references)

   

Italian

  

grezzo (coarse, raw, rough, rude, ruffianly, rustic, unwrought), crudo (piping, raw, rough, unrefined, unwrought), greggio (raw, unrefined). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

粗末 (humble, plain, rough), 粗悪 (coarse, inferior). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ぎごちない (awkward, stiff, stiff-mannered, unrefined), そざつ (coarse, rough), そまつ (humble, plain, rough), ざつ (rough), そほん, そりゃく (coarse, rough), そあく (coarse, inferior), せいこう (affection, bull's eye, character and conduct, delicate, elaborate, exquisite, hit, immature, mark, point, sexual intercourse, steel manufacture, success, unpolished, western suburb), みせい (uncompleted, unfinished), (10th in rank, 6th in rank, chest, chronicle, coffer, deed, lean on, mood, period, plan, pure, raw, rest against, rice tub, rule, season, season word or phrase, sixth sign of the Chinese calendar, skill, spirit, table, tenth sign of the Chinese calendar, that, timber, time, tree, undiluted, wood, yellow). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

조잡한 (Cursory). (various references)

   

Manx

  

garroo (boisterous, coarse, coarse-fibred, dirty, dirty of weather, hairy, harsh, husky, ill-mannered, jagged, low, naughty, pockmarked, raw, rough, rough-and-tumble, rough-spoken, rude, rugged, scraggy, stormy, stormy as sea, stubbly, uncouth, undressed, uneven, uneven as ground, vulgar), aw (raw, uncooked, undressed). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

krudo (raw, rough, unrefined, unwrought). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

udecray.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

cru (indigested, rare, raw, rawhide, rough, unbaked, unbleached, unboiled, uncooked), rude (abrupt, backwoods, barbaric, boisterous, bumbling, caveman, cloddish, coarse, discourteous, displeasing, disrespectful, gothic, gruff, harsh, homespun, husky, incondite, knockabout, larrikin, low-lived, point-blank, raw, rough, rude, rugged, rumbustious, rustic, snippy, tart, tough, unaffable, uncivil, uncouth, uneducated, ungracious, unkind, unnurtured, unpolished, untaught, upstage), bronco (clod, dullard, dunderhead, harsh, raw, rough, shaggy, slow, stupid, thick-headed, thick-skulled, thick-witted). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

crud (brutal, brutally, callous, callow, cruel, cruelly, cut throat, dire, foully, gory, green, hard, harsh, immature, merciless, raw, ruthless, sanguinary, savage, savagely, sodden, sour, truculent, unfeeling, violent, violently, wolfish, young), prost crescut (currish, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, mannerless, unmannerly), primitiv (dark, primal, primary, primeval, primitive, primitively, rude), neprelucrat (raw, rough, rude), nefinişat, needucat, necultivat (out of crop, uncultivated, uneducated, untilled, waste), necopt (green, half-baked, immature, raw, sodden, sour, unripe), imatur (immature, in the gristle, unfledged, unripe), grosolan (boorish, broad, brutish, churlish, clumsy, coarse, coarsely, crass, currish, elephantine, flagrant, glaring, gross, grossly, homespun, ill bred, indecorous, indelicately, inurbane, large, loutish, oafish, rank, rough, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, trivial, unaccomplished, unmannerly, vulgar), brut (coarse, earthy, gross, raw, rough, sheer, undigested), ţipãtor (blatant, crying, flash, flashy, flaunty, garish, gaudy, glaring, gross, harsh, hot, jazzily, loud, noisy, painty, peeper, screaming, showy, shrill, staring, strident, tawdry, tinsel, violent). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

сырье (primaries, raw, raw material, raw materials, raw stuff, stock), сырой;грубый;необработанный (raw), сырой (dabby, damp, dank, green, humid, madid, moist, muggy, poachy, raw, sodden, soggy, unboiled, uncooked, wet), грубый (bad, barbaric, barbarous, bearish, beastly, bestial, blunt, boeotian, boor, boorish, brusque, brutal, brute, brute-force, brutish, churlish, clownish, coarse, common, crass, curmudgeonly, currish, fresh, fulsome, gross, gross ear, gruff, hard bitten, hardhanded, harsh, heathenish, homespun, horny, ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-natured, jazz, larrikin, loutish, low down, low-lived, rank, raucous, raw, rawhide, ribald, robust, rough, rough and ready, rude, scratchy, scurrilous, uncivil, uncultivated, unfinished, unhewn, unmannerly, vulgar, woolly), необработанный (coarse, green, raw, rude, undeveloped, undressed, unimproved, unrefined, untilled), незрелый (embryonic, green, half-baked, immature, puerile, raw, unbaked, unripe, verdant), аляповаты�, аляповатый (awkward, coarse, fussy, harsh), а (agronomics, amputation, anatomist, and, arbitration, Asian, assailant, Australian, but, but to, renter). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

amh (dull, lifeless, raw, unsodden). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

sirov (coarse, gothic, raw, rude, underdone), neobrađen (fallow, rude, uncultivated, uncultured, unimproved), grub (boorish, brusque, bumptious, coarse, harsh, indelicate, lowbrow, rough, rough and ready, rough and tumble), banalan (banal, camp, commonplace, corny, hackneyed, trite). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

crudo (green, raw, rough, uncooked, unrefined, unwrought). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

(advise, bestial, boundary, brute, churlish, coarse, counsel, damp and chilly, fairy, foul-mouthed, fresh, gross, primitive, raw, rough, sprite, tough, uncooked, vulgar, yard), grov (bearish, big, boeotian, coarse, coarse grained, crass, earthy, fulsome, gross, heavy, inelegant, large, rank, raw, rough, rough spoken, rude, thick). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

cırlak (grating, piping, ragged, screeching, shrewish, shrill, squaller, strident), yavan (arid, bald, cut and dried, dry, frail, insipid, jaded, jejune, meager, meagre, milk and water, platitudinous, prosaic, prose, prosy, tasteless, uninspired, vapid, watery), nezaketsiz (brusque, discourteous, disrespectful, impolite, indelicate, offhand, rude, short-spoken, unchivalrous, uncivil, unkind), kaba (abrupt, barbarous, base, bearish, boorish, brusque, brutal, brutish, churlish, clodhopping, coarse, coarse grained, common, crass, discourteous, disobliging, disrespectful, doric, foul, graceless, gross, gruff, gutter, hard-hitting, harsh, heavy, hobnailed, hoggish, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelegant, loud, loutish, offhand, offhanded, ornery, puffy, rank, rough, rough-hewn, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, short-spoken, splay, swinish, tactless, unceremonious, unchivalrous, uncivil, uncomplaisant, uncomplimentary, uncouth, underbred, unfinished, ungainly, ungalant, ungentle, ungentlemanlike, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, ungracious, unmannerly, unparliamentary, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar), ilkel (elementary, embryonic, primal, primeval, primitive, primordial, proto-, rude, rudimental, rudimentary), işlenmemiş (raw, rough, rude, unbroken, uncommitted, uncultivated, uncut, undeveloped, undressed, unfinished, unlaboured, unreclaimed, untilled, unworked), ham (green, immature, raw, rude, uncut, unrefined, unripe), basit (basic, countrified, easy, elemental, elementary, everyday, facile, foolproof, frugal, frugally, homely, humble, jejune, potty, primitive, simple, simplex, simplificative, simplistic, small, straightforward, undemanding, vulgar). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

harsal (coarse, gross). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

сирий (dabby, damp, dank, moist, moisty, nebulous, poachy, raw, splashy, wet), грубий (abrupt, artless, barbaresque, barbaric, base, bearish, boarish, broad, brusque, brute, caddish, chuffy, churlish, clownish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, crass, gross, hard boiled, homely, ill bred, knockabout, offhand, plebeian, primitive, ribald, rough, rough spoken, rude, scratchy, shaggy, surly, swinish, truculent, uncouth), неспілий (unripe), неотесаний (backwoods, barbaric, bearish, chuffy, home-bred, homely, oafish, ramshackle, woolly, wooly), необроблений (coarse, natural, nontreated, raw, rough, uncultivated, undeveloped, undressed, unfinished, waste, wild). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

chưa luyện chưa chín, chưa gọt giũa (rough), thô (harsh, incondite), tục tằn, sống (alive, live, lively, living, unbaked), nguyên (brut, former, primary), mới phác qua thô lỗ, lỗ mãng (brusque, cubbish, rough, roughly, scurrilous). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

llymrig (raw, slipshod), amrwd (raw, uncooked). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Crude

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

crudo, crudum, crudus, rudis. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Crude

Derivations

Words beginning with "crude": crudely, crudeness, crudenesses, cruder, crudes, crudest. (additional references)

Words containing "crude": recrudesce, recrudesced, recrudescence, recrudescences, recrudescent, recrudesces, recrudescing. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Crude" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acrude, brude, cerade, chudde, chude, chudet, coude, Crda, crede, Credem, Credi, crid, cridge, croda, crode, crote, Croud, Croyde, cruad, cruce, crucem, cruda, crudes, crudet, Crudge, Crudia, crudiq, Crudup, crudus, crue, crued, cruex, crule, crume, Crunden, crune, crupe, Crute, Cruze, Curdie, Czudek, drude, krudge, Mccrudden. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Crude"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "crude" (pronounced kruw"d)
4k r uw" daccrued, screwed.
3-r uw" dbrewed, brood, construed, intrude, extrude, misconstrued, obtrude, protrude, prude, rood, rude, shrewd.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Crude

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cured.

Words within the letters "c-d-e-r-u"

-1 letter: crud, cued, curd, cure, duce, dure, ecru, rude, rued.

-2 letters: cud, cue, cur, due, ecu, rec, red, rue, urd.

-3 letters: de, ed, er, re.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-r-u"
 

+1 letter: cruder, crudes, curbed, curded, curdle, curled, curred, cursed, curved, decury, ducker, reduce, ruched, rucked, truced.

 

+2 letters: accrued, adducer, chudder, churned, churred, cloured, coursed, courted, crudded, crudely, crudest, cruised, crumbed, crumped, crunode, crusade, crushed, crusted, cudbear, cuddler, curated, curdier, curdled, curdler, curdles, curried, decorum, decurve, douceur, duckers, duckier, durance, eductor, eructed, euchred, inducer, lurched, produce, recused, reduced, reducer, reduces, rescued, ruckled, scoured, secured, seducer, sourced, spruced, traduce, trucked, ulcered, uncured.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Sounds
10. Quotations: Familiar
11. Quotations: Non-fiction
12. Quotations: Speeches
13. Usage Frequency
14. Expressions
15. Expressions: Internet
16. Translations: Modern
17. Translations: Ancient
18. Derivations
19. Rhymes
20. Anagrams
21. Bibliography


  

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