CRUDE as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons
   Synonym(s)
   • crude oil (what does crude oil mean?)
   • fossil oil (what does fossil oil mean?)
   • petroleum (what does petroleum mean?)
   • rock oil (what does rock oil mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) crude is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • oil (what does oil mean?)
   • fossil fuel (what does fossil fuel mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • residual oil (what does residual oil mean?)
   • resid (what does resid mean?)

CRUDE as ADJECTIVE

1. Meaning
   • not processed or subjected to analysis
   Synonym(s)
   • raw (what does raw mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • raw data
   • the raw cost of production
   • only the crude vital statistics
   Similar To
   • unanalyzed (what does unanalyzed mean?)
2. Meaning
   • conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
   Synonym(s)
   • coarse (what does coarse mean?)
   • earthy (what does earthy mean?)
   • gross (what does gross mean?)
   • vulgar (what does vulgar mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • 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
   Similar To
   • indecent (what does indecent mean?)
3. Meaning
   • belonging to an early stage of technical development
   • characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness
   Synonym(s)
   • primitive (what does primitive mean?)
   • rude (what does rude mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man
   • primitive movies of the 1890s
   • primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mo
   Similar To
   • early (what does early mean?)
4. Meaning
   • not refined or processed
   Synonym(s)
   • unprocessed (what does unprocessed mean?)
   • unrefined (what does unrefined mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • unrefined ore
   • crude oil
   Antonym(s)
   • refined (what does refined mean?)
   • processed (what does processed mean?)
5. Meaning
   • not carefully or expertly made
   Synonym(s)
   • rough (what does rough mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • managed to make a crude splint
   • a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them
   • rough carpentry
   Similar To
   • unskilled (what does unskilled mean?)