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Crude   /krud/   Listen
adjective
Crude  adj.  (compar. cruder; superl. crudest)  
1.
In its natural state; not cooked or prepared by fire or heat; undressed; not altered, refined, or prepared for use by any artificial process; raw; as, crude flesh. "Common crude salt." "Molding to its will each successive deposit of the crude materials."
2.
Unripe; not mature or perfect; immature. "I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude."
3.
Not reduced to order or form; unfinished; not arranged or prepared; ill-considered; immature. "Crude projects." "Crude, undigested masses of suggestion, furnishing rather raw materials for composition." "The originals of Nature in their crude Conception."
4.
Undigested; unconcocted; not brought into a form to give nourishment. "Crude and inconcoct."
5.
Having, or displaying, superficial and undigested knowledge; without culture or profundity; as, a crude reasoner.
6.
(Paint.) Harsh and offensive, as a color; tawdry or in bad taste, as a combination of colors, or any design or work of art.






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"Crude" Quotes from Famous Books



... in that life The chance had been hers to escape from this strife In herself; finding peace in the life of another From the passionate wants she, in hers, failed to smother. But the chance fell too soon, when the crude restless power Which had been to her nature so fatal a dower, Only wearied the man it yet haunted and thrall'd; And that moment, once lost, had been never recall'd. Yet it left her heart sore: and, to shelter her heart From approach, she then sought, ...
— Lucile • Owen Meredith

... Mitchell established a second depot, and on the 10th September started with the black boy and two men for a month's trip to the westward. On this trip, he must receive the credit of initiating the now commonly used water-bag for carrying water. His, it must be confessed, was a very crude one, being only a thick flour bag, covered ...
— The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 • Ernest Favenc

... felt trapped. Everything had been spoilt by this unexpected happening, and Sally's unconscious helplessness revealed. It was a blow to her vanity, a douche to her crude romanticism. She had felt cramped and irritable before; but now she was made to realise how little she had with which to fight against calamity and the encroachments of others. Compared with this ...
— Coquette • Frank Swinnerton

... "it may be my ideas are rather crude, but really I cannot imagine I could ever make butter! Do you think I could, Mr. Desmonde?" leaning forward to catch Louis' eye, and plying her flashy fan with renewed energy and great care to show the ring of emeralds and diamonds that ...
— The Harvest of Years • Martha Lewis Beckwith Ewell

... residence at Cambridge and the intercourse with the liberal thinkers there had brought me to; the influence of Norton, Lowell, Agassiz, and Emerson especially. In this liberation I am aware of no sudden break in my belief from its crude acceptance of miraculous conversion and eternal damnation for the unconverted, but a slow opening of my eyes to larger truths. If any individual influence other than those I have named came in, it would have been the reading of Swedenborg, which gave ...
— The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II • William James Stillman


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