Adjective: crude
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | cruder |
| Superlative | crudest |
Perifrastic
Sample Sentences
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crude oil
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a crude shelter
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a crude estimate
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a crude guess
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City Comedies depicted the pursuit of wealth, status, and women in Jacobean London. In a typical plot, a ne'er-do-well young gentleman dupes his older relatives out of money, while lower-class rascals play cruder tricks on respectable citizens. [1983, Wendy Griswold, “The Devil's Techniques: Cultural Legitimation and Social Change”, in American Sociological Review, volume 48, number 5, page 672 of 668–680:]
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a crude truth
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a crude remark
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You shouldn't use such crude language when talking to the bank manager.
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At first, there’s something almost disconcertingly crude about the sasquatch skins. [2024 June 16, Wendy Ide, “Sasquatch Sunset review – brilliant bigfoot oddity is unexpectedly moving”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]
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Her mete was very crude,
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She had not wel endude; […] [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:]
Adjectives inflected like crude
scarce,
smoove,
sombre,
wholsome,
sheene,
bolshie,
baroque,
concrete,
seveare,
comf'table,
shrewde,
'umble,
grislie,
unsubtle,
ungentle,
indiscrete,
couthie,
chavvie,
lissome,
cutesie, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂-der.
3. Proto-Italic [Term?]
4. Latin crūdusbor.
5. Middle English crude
6. English crude
7. Doublet of crudo, which was borrowed from Italian, and (more distantly) raw through Proto-Indo-European.
Verbs referencing "crude"
French Adjectives
cru, Spanish Adjectives
crudo.