CRUDE


Meaning of CRUDE in English

I. ˈkrüd adjective

( -er/-est )

Etymology: Middle English, from Latin crudus raw — more at raw

1. : in a natural state : not cooked or prepared by fire or heat : not altered or prepared for use by any process : raw

crude flesh

: not refined

crude sugar

crude rubber

2. obsolete : undigested : not digestible : not brought into a form to give nourishment

3. obsolete : unripe : not mature or perfect : immature , undeveloped

I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude — John Milton

4. : marked by the primitive, gross, or elemental or by the most readily apprehended : wanting subtlety, nuance, or complexity : low in perception, analysis, or appreciation

a crude notion

a crude theory

it was there that the crude dogmatism of New England was refined and humanized — H.L.Mencken

5. : marked by uncultivated simplicity : wanting in elegance, discrimination, or polish especially in choice of words or figures

cruder, because less capable of expressing complicated, subtle, and surprising emotions — T.S.Eliot

: noticeable or offensive for vulgarity

crude barracks conversations

: harshly loud : grating : unpleasant through lack of modulation or relief

the China asters smear their crude colors — Amy Lowell

6. : quite oblivious or contemptuous of the refined or elevated

the crude masses of Teutondom which poured into Provincia to be leavened by its culture — H.O.Taylor

7. : rough or inexpert in plan or execution : wanting advanced technical skill in contrivance and elegance in effect

the cruder means of transportation, by wooden ships propelled by the wind … by oxcart — A.C.Morrison

8. : lacking any covering, glossing, concealing, or masking : lacking mitigation, alleviation, or reservation : obvious , sheer , utter , bald , stark

crude facts

crude necessity

crude sensation

not the crude beauty of the eye. It was not beauty pure and simple — Virginia Woolf

9. archaic : constituting the part of a word that remains constant or nearly constant throughout a paradigm : being the base to which inflectional affixes are attached

the stem or crude form of a word

10. of statistics : tabulated without breaking down into classes

crude death rate

11. of animal feedstuffs : reacting like members of a particular class of nutrients to certain identifying tests though not necessarily chemically a member of such class

crude protein includes all the nitrogenous compounds of a feed

crude fat is high in this analysis but digestible fats are low

Synonyms: see rude

II. noun

( -s )

: a substance in its natural unprocessed state: as

a. : crude oil

b. : initial products of distillation of crude oil without cracking or other treatment

c. : a crude substance (as benzene, toluene, xylene, cresol, naphthalene, anthracene, or carbazole) distilled from coal tar

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.