Word Meanings - CRUDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Harsh and offensive, as a color; tawdry or in bad taste, as a combination of colors, or any design or work of art. (more info) crudus raw; akin to cruor blood . See Raw, 1. In its natural state; not cooked or prepared by fire or heat; undressed;

Additional info about word: CRUDE

Harsh and offensive, as a color; tawdry or in bad taste, as a combination of colors, or any design or work of art. (more info) crudus raw; akin to cruor blood . See Raw, 1. 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. "Common crude salt." Boyle. Molding to its will each successive deposit of the crude materials. I. Taylor. 2. Unripe; not mature or perfect; immature. I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude. Milton. 3. Not reduced to order or form;unfinished; not arranged or prepared; ill-considered; immature. "Crudeprojects." Macualay. Crude, undigested masses of suggestion, furnishing rather raw materials for composition. De Quincey. The originals of Nature in their crude Conception. Milton. 4. Undigested; unconcocted; not brought into a form to give nourishment. "Crude and inconcoct." Bacon. 5. Having, or displaying, superficial and undigested knowledge; without culture or profudity; as, a crude reasoner.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CRUDE)

• Hasty
• Speedy
• rapid
• superficial
• hurried
• irascible
• impetuous
• reckless
• headlong
• crude
• incomplete
• undeveloped
• immature
• swift
• precipitate
• fiery
• passionate
• slight
• quick
• excitable
• rash
• cursory
• Immature
• Unripe
• green
• imperfect
• unfinished
• Indigestible
• Crude
• raw
• heavy
• Premature
• unauthenticated
• untimely
• precocious
• too early
• unseasonable
• Raw
• Uncooked
• unprepared
• unripe
• unseasoned
• inexperienced
• fresh
• unpractised
• untried
• bare
• bald
• exposed
• galled
• chill
• bleak
• piercing

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CRUDE)

• Regard
• respect
• notice
• observe

Related words: (words related to CRUDE)

• GALLIASS
  See GALLEASS
• PRECIPITATELY
  In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily; rashly. Swift.
• GREENLANDER
  A native of Greenland.
• GREENLET
  l. One of numerous species of small American singing birds, of the genus Vireo, as the solitary, or blue-headed (Vireo solitarius); the brotherly-love ; the warbling greenlet ; the yellow-throated greenlet and others. See Vireo. 2. Any species
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• GREENSAND
  A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime. Note: Greensand is often called marl, because
• GALLEON
  A sailing vessel of the 15th and following centuries, often having three or four decks, and used for war or commerce. The term is often rather indiscriminately applied to any large sailing vessel. The gallens . . . were huge, round-stemmed, clumsy
• GREENFISH
  See POLLOCK
• CHILLINESS
  1. A state or sensation of being chilly; a disagreeable sensation of coldness. 2. A moderate degree of coldness; disagreeable coldness or rawness; as, the chilliness of the air. 3. Formality; lack of warmth.
• GREENOCKITE
  Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• GALLSTONE
  A concretion, or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. See Calculus, n., 1.
• RAPID
  1. Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion. Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels. Milton. 2. Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth;
• FRESHNESS
  The state of being fresh. The Scots had the advantage both for number and freshness of men. Hayward. And breathe the freshness of the open air. Dryden. Her cheeks their freshness lose and wonted grace. Granville.
• GALLANTLY
  In a polite or courtly manner; like a gallant or wooer.
• EXCITABLE
  Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.
• GREENHOUSE
  A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather.
• FRESHET
  1. A stream of fresh water. Milton. 2. A flood or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow; a sudden inundation. Cracked the sky, as ice in rivers When the freshet is at highest. Longfellow.
• GREENWEED
  See GREENBROOM
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• PRODIGALLY
  In a prodigal manner; with profusion of expense; extravagantly; wasteful; profusely; lavishly; as, an estate prodigally dissipated. Nature not bounteous now, but lavish grows; Our paths with flowers she prodigally strows. Dryden.
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• ENQUICKEN
  To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
• EMGALLA
  The South African wart hog. See Wart hog.
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• AYEGREEN
  The houseleek . Halliwell.
• PYROGALLATE
  A salt of pyrogallic acid; an ether of pyrogallol.