# crude

Pronunciation: say "KROOD" /kɹuːd/

## Noun

1. Ellipsis of crude oil. — Ellipsis of crude oil.
   - Simple: Short for crude oil. Use it to mean the oil that comes out of the ground before it is cleaned.
   - _Refineries turn crude into gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel._
   - _Global demand for crude surged after the unusually harsh winter._
6. Any substance in its natural, unprocessed state.
   - Simple: Any raw material in its natural state, before it is treated or processed.
   - _The mill grinds the crude into a fine powder for further treatment._
   - _Each shipment of crude from the salt flats is weighed before it enters the plant._

## Adjective

2. Showing a lack of tact or good taste; rude, vulgar, or offensive.
   - Simple: Rude or offensive, showing no care for good manners or other people's feelings.
   - _The comedian's crude humor alienated much of the audience._
   - _He made a crude gesture across the crowded room._
3. Marked by simplicity, especially when made roughly rather than carefully or expertly.
   - Simple: Made in a simple, rough way, without much care or skill.
   - _The prototype was a crude assembly of wood and tangled wire._
   - _Early humans shaped crude tools by chipping away at stone._
4. In a natural, untreated state, before any refining or processing has taken place.
   - Simple: In a raw, natural state, before being cleaned or changed in any way.
   - _Traders dealt in crude latex tapped directly from the trees._
   - _The mill receives crude wool that still carries dirt and grease._
5. Plain and undisguised; lacking anything that would soften or conceal it.
   - Simple: Open and direct, with nothing hidden or softened.
   - _The memo laid out the layoffs in crude, unsparing detail._
   - _Her crude assessment of the budget left no room for comfort._
7. In grammar, relating to the stem of a word before any inflectional endings are added.
   - Simple: Describing the basic form of a word, before any endings are added.
   - _Students learn to find the crude root before adding personal endings._
   - _Each entry pairs the crude form with its inflected variants._

## Adjective

8. Unripe or immature; not yet fully developed. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: Not yet ripe or fully grown.
   - _The orchard's crude pears were set aside to ripen in the cellar._
   - _Travelers complained of the crude grapes that set their teeth on edge._
9. Uncooked; raw. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Not cooked, still raw.

## Origin

From Middle English crude, borrowed from Latin crūdus ("raw, uncooked, undigested"). It is cognate with Old English hrēaw ("raw, uncooked") through the Proto-Indo-European root meaning "raw blood", and is related to the English word "raw".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/crude (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).