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Definition: Crude |
CrudeAdjective1. 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". Noun1. 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) |
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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) |
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Synonyms: CrudeSynonyms: 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) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. |
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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) | |
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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. |
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| "Oilfield pump-jack 2" by Tammy Sharp Commentary: "Oilfield pump-jack, pumping crude oil. ." |
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| 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. | ||
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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. |
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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. |
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Woodrow Wilson | 1913-1921 | There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to succeed and be great. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | This surplus capacity enabled us to influence both supplies and prices of crude oil throughout the world. |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.34% | 1,242 | 6,298 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.66% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,263 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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. | |
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Beginning with "crude": crude-oil. | |
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| 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. |
| 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), 粗 (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), き (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 | rå (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. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | crudo, crudum, crudus, rudis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "crude" (pronounced kruw"d) |
| 4 | k r uw" d | accrued, screwed. |
| 3 | -r uw" d | brewed, brood, construed, intrude, extrude, misconstrued, obtrude, protrude, prude, rood, rude, shrewd. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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