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crude

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crude in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment
    "the blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality of the deadline"
    blunt  crude  stark 
  2. not refined or processed
    "unrefined ore"; "crude oil"
    unrefined  unprocessed  crude 
  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 movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains"
    crude  primitive  rude 
  4. conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
    "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"
    crude  earthy  gross  vulgar 
  5. not processed or subjected to analysis
    "raw data"; "the raw cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics"
    crude  raw 
  6. not carefully or expertly made
    "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry"
    crude  rough 
noun
  1. a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons
    petroleum  crude oil  crude  rock oil  fossil oil  oil 
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