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From Middle English crude, borrowed from Latin crūdus (“raw, bloody, uncooked, undigested, crude”). Doublet of crudo, from Italian. Cognate with Old English hrēaw (“raw, uncooked”) via Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“raw blood”); more at raw.

crude (comparative cruder, superlative crudest)

  1. In a natural, untreated state.
    Synonyms: raw, unrefined, unprocessed; see also Thesaurus:raw
    Antonyms: processed, refined
    crude oil
  2. Characterized by simplicity, especially something not carefully or expertly made.
    Synonyms: primitive, rough, rude, rudimentary; see also Thesaurus:crude
    a crude shelter
    a crude estimate
    a crude guess
    • 1983, Wendy Griswold, “The Devil's Techniques: Cultural Legitimation and Social Change”, in American Sociological Review‎[1], volume 48, number 5, page 672 of 668–680:
      City Comedies depicted the pursuit of wealth, status, and women in Jacobean London. In a typical plot, a ne'er-do-well young gentleman dupes his older relatives out of money, while lower-class rascals play cruder tricks on respectable citizens.
  3. Lacking concealing elements.
    Synonyms: obvious, plain, unadorned, undisguised; see also Thesaurus:unadorned
    a crude truth
  4. Lacking tact or taste.
    Synonyms: blunt, coarse, earthy, gross, stark, uncultivated, vulgar
    a crude remark
    You shouldn't use such crude language when talking to the bank manager.
    • 2024 June 16, Wendy Ide, “Sasquatch Sunset review – brilliant bigfoot oddity is unexpectedly moving”, in The Guardian‎[2], →ISSN:
      At first, there’s something almost disconcertingly crude about the sasquatch skins.
  5. (statistics) Not adjusted or further analyzed.
    Synonym: raw
  6. (archaic) Immature or unripe.
    Synonyms: immature, unripe
  7. (obsolete) Uncooked, raw.
    • c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 77–78:
      Her mete was very crude,
      She had not wel endude; […]
  8. (grammar) Pertaining to the uninflected stem of a word.

being in a natural state

characterized by simplicity

lacking concealing elements

lacking tact or taste

statistics: in an unanalyzed form

crude (countable and uncountable, plural crudes)

  1. Any substance in its natural state.
  2. Ellipsis of crude oil.
    • 2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist‎[3], volume 408, number 8847, archived from the original on 19 August 2022:
      The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched 18(around18 (around 18(around450 at today’s prices).

crude

  1. feminine plural of crudo

crūde

  1. vocative masculine singular of crūdus

crude

  1. alternative form of crouden

Borrowed from Latin crūdus.

crude

  1. unprocessed, uncooked, unworked (in a negative way)

Borrowed from English crude (“unrefined oil”). Doublet of cru.

crude m (plural crudes)

  1. crude oil (unrefined oil)