Adjective crude has 6 senses
- crude, rough - not carefully or expertly made; "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry"
Antonym: skilled (indirect, via unskilled)
- coarse, crude, earthy, gross, vulgar - 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"
Antonym: decent (indirect, via indecent)
- unrefined, unprocessed, crude - not refined or processed; "unrefined ore"; "crude oil"
- crude, primitive, rude - 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"
Antonyms: late, later (indirect, via early)
- blunt, crude, stark - devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; "the blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality of the deadline"
Antonym: conditional (indirect, via unconditional)
- crude, raw - not processed or subjected to analysis; "raw data"; "the raw cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics"
Antonym: analyzed (indirect, via unanalyzed)
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Noun crude has 1 sense
- petroleum, crude oil, crude, rock oil, fossil oil - a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons
--1 is a kind of oil; fossil fuel
--1 has substances: carbon, C, atomic number 6
--1 has particulars: residual oil, resid
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