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1. Not carefully or expertly made
   "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them";
   - rough
    
2. Conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
   "a crude joke"; "crude behaviour";
   - earthy, gross, vulgar, salty, coarse, ripe [informal]
    
3. 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, rude
    
4. Devoid of any qualifications, disguise or adornment
   "the crude facts";
   - blunt, stark, brute
    
5. Not processed or subjected to analysis
   "only the crude vital statistics";
   - raw
    
6. Not refined or processed
   "crude oil";
   - unrefined, unprocessed

1. A dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons
   - petroleum, crude oil, rock oil, fossil oil, oil, black gold [informal]

Sounds like: cross, crossee, crewe

Derived forms: cruder, crudes, crudest

See also: early, indecent, unanalysed [Brit, Cdn], unanalyzed [N. Amer], unconditional, unconditioned, unskilled

Type of: fossil fuel, oil

Encyclopedia: Crude