# crude
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English crude, borrowed from Latin crūdus (“raw, bloody, uncooked, undigested, crude”). Cognate with Old English hrēaw (“raw, uncooked”). More at raw.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: kro͞od, IPA: /kɹuːd/
* (Scotland) IPA: /kɹʉd/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -uːd
* Homophone: crewed (except Scotland)

### Adjective

crude (comparative cruder, superlative crudest)
* In a natural, untreated state.
    Synonyms: raw, unrefined, unprocessed
    crude oil
* Characterized by simplicity, especially something not carefully or expertly made.
    Synonyms: primitive, rough, rude, rudimentary
    a crude shelter
    a crude estimate
    a crude guess
* Lacking concealing elements.
    Synonyms: obvious, plain, unadorned, undisguised
    a crude truth
* Lacking tact or taste.
    Synonyms: blunt, coarse, earthy, gross, stark, uncultivated, vulgar
    a crude remark
    You shouldn't use such crude language when talking to the bank manager.
* (archaic) Immature or unripe.
    Synonyms: immature, unripe
* (obsolete) Uncooked, raw.
** 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:Her mete was very crude, She had not wel endude; […]
* (grammar) Pertaining to the uninflected stem of a word.

#### Synonyms

* (statistics: in an unanalyzed form): raw
* See also Thesaurus:raw

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “being in a natural state”): refined, processed

#### Derived terms

* crude birth rate
* crude death rate
* crude form, crudeform
* crudely
* crude material
* cruden
* crudeness
* crude oil
* crude sap
* crudesome
* crudy
* ultra large crude carrier
* uncrude
* very large crude carrier

#### Related terms

* crudity
* cruel
* cruelty

#### Translations

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### Noun

crude (countable and uncountable, plural crudes)
* Any substance in its natural state.
* Crude oil.
** 2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).

#### Derived terms

* biocrude
* Brent crude
* sour crude
* sweet crude
* syncrude

#### Descendants

* → Portuguese: crude

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Druce, Ducre, cured

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkru.de/
* Rhymes: -ude
* Hyphenation: crù‧de

### Adjective

crude
* feminine plural of crudo

### Anagrams

* curde

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkruː.de/, [ˈkruːd̪ɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈkru.de/, [ˈkruːd̪e]

### Adjective

crūde
* vocative masculine singular of crūdus

### References

* "crude", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

## Middle English
### Etymology 1
#### Verb

crude
* Alternative form of crouden

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin crūdus.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkriu̯d(ə)/

#### Adjective

crude
* unprocessed, uncooked, unworked (in a negative way)

##### Derived terms

* crudelite

##### Descendants

* English: crude (see there for further descendants)

##### References

* “crūde, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-10.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from English crude (“unrefined oil”). Doublet of cru.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkɾu.d͡ʒi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkɾu.d͡ʒi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈkɾu.de/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈkɾu.dɨ/ [ˈkɾu.ðɨ]
* Hyphenation: cru‧de

### Noun

crude m (plural crudes)
* crude oil (unrefined oil)

#### Related terms

* cru
* cruel