Meaning & Definition of Crude in English

1. A dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons

1. Not carefully or expertly made

• "Managed to make a crude splint"

• "A crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"

• "Rough carpentry"

2. 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"

3. Not refined or processed

• "Unrefined ore"

• "Crude oil"

4. 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"

5. Devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment

• "The blunt truth"

• "The crude facts"

• "Facing the stark reality of the deadline"

6. Not processed or subjected to analysis

• "Raw data"

• "The raw cost of production"

• "Only the crude vital statistics"