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crude
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[ adjective ] not carefully or expertly made
Synonyms Examples "managed to make a crude splint" "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them" "rough carpentry" Used in print (Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)the crude sketch of Piepsam contains , in its critical , destructive and self-destructive tendencies , much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of , for_instance , Naphta and Leverku^hn . (Jay C. Harris and John R. Van Wazer, "Detergent...)The crude picture of the detergency process thus_far developed can be represented as : * * f The influence of mechanical action on the particles of free soil may be compared to that of kinetic_energy on a molecular scale . (Clayton C. Barbeau, The Ikon....)The crude wooden boxes of the enemy , our nicely turned gray metal disks . (Bruce Palmer, "My Brother's Keeper", Many Are...)A crude ladder ran down to a wooden floor . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
Examples "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" Used in print (Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)These narratives of coarse action and crude language appeared first in local newspapers , as a rule , and later found their way between book covers , though rarely into the planters ' libraries beside the morocco bound volumes of Horace , Mr._Addison , Mr._Pope , and Sir_Walter_Scott . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] not processed or subjected to analysis
Synonyms Examples "raw data" "the raw cost of production" "only the crude vital statistics" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] not refined or processed
Synonyms Examples "unrefined ore" "crude oil" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment
Examples "the blunt truth" "the crude facts" "facing the stark reality of the deadline" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (chemistry) a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons
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