crude
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English
Etymology
From Middle English crude, borrowed from Latin crūdus (“raw, bloody, uncooked, undigested, crude”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“raw meat, fresh blood”). Cognate with Old English hrēaw (“raw, uncooked”). More at raw.
Pronunciation
- enPR: kro͞od, IPA(key): /kɹuːd/
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /kɹʉd/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -uːd
- Homophone: crewed (except Scotland)
Adjective
crude (comparative cruder, superlative crudest)
- In a natural, untreated state.
- Synonyms: raw, unrefined, unprocessed
- crude oil
- Characterized by simplicity, especially something not carefully or expertly made.
- Synonyms: primitive, rough, rude, rudimentary
- a crude shelter
- a crude estimate
- a crude guess
- Lacking concealing elements.
- Synonyms: obvious, plain, unadorned, undisguised
- a crude truth
- Lacking tact or taste.
- (archaic) Immature or unripe.
- (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; […]
- (grammar) Pertaining to the uninflected stem of a word.
Synonyms
- (statistics: in an unanalyzed form): raw
- See also Thesaurus:raw
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Translations
being in a natural state
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characterized by simplicity
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lacking concealing elements
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lacking tact or taste
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statistics: in an unanalyzed form
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Noun
crude (countable and uncountable, plural crudes)
- Any substance in its natural state.
- Crude oil.
- 2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
- 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 (around $450 at today’s prices).
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Portuguese: crude
Translations
any substance in its natural state
crude oil — see crude oil
Anagrams
Italian
Pronunciation
Adjective
crude
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
Adjective
crūde
References
- crude in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Middle English
Etymology 1
Verb
crude
- Alternative form of crouden
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Adjective
crude
- unprocessed, uncooked, unworked (in a negative way)
Derived terms
Descendants
- English: crude (see there for further descendants)
References
- “crūde, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-10.
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English crude (“unrefined oil”). Doublet of cru.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: cru‧de
Noun
crude m (plural crudes)
- crude oil (unrefined oil)