crude

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.

• enPR: kro͞od, IPA^(key): /kɹuːd/

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• Rhymes: -uːd
• Homophone: crewed

crude (comparative cruder, superlative crudest)

1. In a natural, untreated state.

   crude oil

2. Characterized by simplicity, especially something not carefully or expertly made.

   a crude shelter

3. Lacking concealing elements.

   a crude truth

4. Lacking tact or taste.

   a crude remark

5. (archaic) Immature or unripe.
6. (grammar) Pertaining to the uninflected stem of a word.

• (being in a natural state): raw, unrefined, unprocessed
• (characterized by simplicity): primitive, rough, rude, rudimentary
• (lacking concealing elements): obvious, plain, unadorned, undisguised
• (lacking tact or taste): blunt, coarse, earthy, gross, stark, uncultivated, vulgar
• (statistics: in an unanalyzed form): raw
• (archaic: immature or unripe): See immature or unripe
• See also Thesaurus:raw

• (being in a natural state): refined, processed

• crudity
• cruel
• cruelty

crude (countable and uncountable, plural crudes)

1. Any substance in its natural state.
2. 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).

• syncrude

• cured

crude

1. feminine plural of crudo

• curde

crūde

1. vocative masculine singular of crūdus

• crude in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

From Old English crūdan.

crude

1. Alternative form of crouden

Borrowed from Latin crūdus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkriu̯d(ə)/

crude

1. unprocessed, uncooked, unworked (in a negative way)

• crudelite

• English: crude

• “crūde (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-10.