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/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /kɹʉd/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uːd
• Homophone: crewed (except Scotland)

crude (comparative cruder, superlative crudest)

1. In a natural, untreated state.

   Synonyms: raw, unrefined, unprocessed

   crude oil

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

   Synonyms: primitive, rough, rude, rudimentary

   a crude shelter

   a crude estimate

   a crude guess

3. Lacking concealing elements.

   Synonyms: obvious, plain, unadorned, undisguised

   a crude truth

4. Lacking tact or taste.

   Synonyms: blunt, coarse, earthy, gross, stark, uncultivated, vulgar

   a crude remark

   You shouldn't use such crude language when talking to the bank manager.

5. (archaic) Immature or unripe.

   Synonyms: immature, unripe

6. (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; […]

7. (grammar) Pertaining to the uninflected stem of a word.

• (statistics: in an unanalyzed form): raw
• See also Thesaurus:raw

• (antonym(s) of “being in a natural state”): refined, processed

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).

• → Portuguese: crude

• Druce, Ducre, cured

• IPA^(key): /ˈkru.de/
• Rhymes: -ude
• Hyphenation: crù‧de

crude

1. feminine plural of crudo

• curde

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkruː.de/, [ˈkruːd̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkru.de/, [ˈkruːd̪e]

crūde

1. vocative masculine singular of crūdus

• 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)

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 (see there for further descendants)

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

Borrowed from English crude (“unrefined oil”). Doublet of cru.

• Hyphenation: cru‧de

crude m (plural crudes)

1. crude oil (unrefined oil)