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    crude
    [kro͞od]
    adjective
    crude (adjective) · cruder (comparative adjective) · crudest (superlative adjective)
    1. constructed in a rudimentary or makeshift way:
      "the inspectors dismissed the documents as crude forgeries" · "a relatively crude nuclear weapon"
      • (of an action) showing little finesse or subtlety and as a result unlikely to succeed:
        "the accounts are contradictory and smack of a rather crude attempt at a cover-up" · "the measure was condemned by economists as crude and ill-conceived"
    2. offensively coarse or explicit, especially in relation to sexual matters:
      "a crude joke"
    3. in a natural or raw state; not yet processed or refined:
      "crude protein"
      • statistics
        (of figures) not adjusted or corrected:
        "the crude mortality rate"
      • (of an estimate or guess) likely to be only approximately accurate:
        "a crude estimate of the number of people available for work"
    noun
    crude (noun) · crudes (plural noun)
    1. natural petroleum:
      "the ship was carrying 80,000 tons of crude"
    Origin
    late Middle English: from Latin crudus ‘raw, rough’.
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    adjective
    1. constructed in a rudimentary or makeshift way:
      Opposite:
    2. offensively coarse or explicit, especially in relation to sexual matters:
    3. in a natural or raw state; not yet processed or refined:
      Opposite:
     
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