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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



... disagreeable over his triumph. That is the man's nature—to be cowed by failure and bombastic over success. It's singular, come to think it over, how one who has the soul to create a wonderful painting can be so crude ...
— Mary Louise Solves a Mystery • L. Frank Baum

... groping mind there evolved the thought, due to past experience, that he could not contend with these things by physical force, but must subdue them with magic; his magic consisted of the beating of crude drum-like instruments, dances, ...
— The Necessity of Atheism • Dr. D.M. Brooks

... wound. He found that the bullet had plowed through the fleshy part of the thigh, just missing the bone, and, barring chances of infection, it was not likely to be dangerous. He was readjusting Slim's crude bandaging when he heard the beat of hoofs and out of the corner of one eye saw McCabe walk swiftly out to ...
— Shoe-Bar Stratton • Joseph Bushnell Ames

... Mariner' has the plausibility, the perfect adaptation to reason and life, which belongs to the marvellous, when actually presented as part of a credible experience in our dreams. . . . The spectral object, so crude, so impossible, has become plausible, as 'the spot upon the brain that will show itself without,' and is understood to be but a condition of one's own mind, for which—according to the scepticism latent at least in so much of our modern ...
— A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century • Henry A. Beers

... she detested both the city, with its crude mingling of primitive simplicity and Western luxury, and the life she lived in it. It was a life of pretense and struggle, in which she suffered bitter mortifications daily. Presently she reined the team in to a walk as she drove under the ...
— Thurston of Orchard Valley • Harold Bindloss


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