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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
    
3. Not refined or processed
   "crude oil"
   - unrefined, unprocessed
    
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, rude
    
5. Devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment
   "the crude facts"
   - blunt, stark
    
6. Not processed or subjected to analysis
   "only the crude vital statistics"
   - raw

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

Sounds like: crewed

Derived forms: crudest, crudes, cruder

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

Type of: fossil fuel, oil

Encyclopedia: Crude