crude
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3.9
- adjective
- /kruːd/
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simplista
- She presented her ideas in crude terms that lacked nuance and sophistication.
- in a crude way
Somewhat rather naive and very nationalistic in crude fashion.
- Somewhat rather naive and very nationalistic in crude fashion.
- IQ is such a crude measure of all of the things that we really deeply care about.
- For that, for that use case, you know, for a nonverbal communication, you might say that's a solved problem in a very crude, disjointed way.
- And then for blood testing, you're getting it's sort of a crude window into the averages, a static total level.
- No, but it's it's very interesting because it's a very crude form of of drama has emerged and it's it's a drama that are not in the fight itself.
Examples
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Obviously, choosing a single number to represent all of these effects is crude, but the results are still fascinating.
Academic text (1995) -
Of course this machine just gives you a crude idea.
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To put it in crude terms.
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Oh, of course this is only a crude beginning.
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A message, crude but appropriate.
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I know it sounds a bit crude, but it's how things are.
Blog text (27) -
To begin with, your methods of dating the past are crude to say the least.
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Life is essentially meaningless if you want to think about it in such crude terms.
Blog text (30) -
Crude but very powerful.
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Crude but adequate.
Synonyms
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3.8
Speaking in a direct, plain way that can sound rude
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6.1
Showing little good taste or refinement in style
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4.2
Rude in behaviour or style, showing little politeness and bad taste
Plain and simple, not expensive or decorated
Antonyms
Compounds
How Plain
Surface Forms
Etymology
Crude comes from the Latin crudus meaning 'raw', which helps explain why it can mean plain and without decoration. So a crude summary gives the basic, hard facts with no soft words.