Definition of Crude

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Definition of Crude

Crude

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.

Unripe; not mature or perfect; immature.

Not reduced to order or form; unfinished; not arranged or prepared; ill-considered; immature.

Undigested; unconcocted; not brought into a form to give nourishment.

Having, or displaying, superficial and undigested knowledge; without culture or profundity; as, a crude reasoner.

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 Quotations

I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.
Walt Disney

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
Gustave Flaubert

The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.
Hedy Lamarr

This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development.
Itzhak Perlman

If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil.
Doug Coupland

Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.
Lionel Blue

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.
Leon Kass

We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know.
Susan George

You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.
Mary MacLane

Crude Translations

crude in Afrikaans is rou
crude in Dutch is bot, onbewerkt, onbehouwen, cru, grof
crude in Finnish is raaka
crude in French is vulgaire, brut, cru
crude in Italian is grezzo
crude in Portuguese is cru
crude in Spanish is crudo, bronco

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