crude

cruder crudest
Noun
1. a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons
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(substance-meronym) carbon, C, atomic number 6
Adjective
1. not carefully or expertly made; "managed to make a crude splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them"; "rough carpentry"
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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"
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3. not refined or processed; "unrefined ore"; "crude oil"
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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"
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5. devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; "the blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality of the deadline"
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6. not processed or subjected to analysis; "raw data"; "the raw cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics"
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