crudely
13
4.8
- adverb
- /ˈkruːdli/
:
de forma tosca
- The sculpture was crudely shaped, lacking the fine details found in more polished works.
- crudely put
- crudely carved
- crudely managed
Now you can see it's a really crudely carved stock.
- Now you can see it's a really crudely carved stock.
- This is a very crudely made doll of a friend Dresher.
- Is it like so gender, say crudely speaking, male and female and then different races?
- But if you tune it crudely with crude tuning, you're going to get this answer.
- They think about our modern computers and somehow trivially, crudely just scaled up in some sense.
- And this is the mean that's taken crudely.
- There's map crudely drawn, but you know, good enough and it's helpful for figuring out where things are in the stories.
Examples
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Some of the cement appears to have been crudely smeared away with a cloth.
Academic text (2003) -
And so scientific laws, crudely speaking, are simply summaries of experience.
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They, they, they mean the same thing, to put it crudely, they come to the same thing.
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And we can do that crudely on a balance like this.
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Well, crudely put, but basically accurate.
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At this stage, hypotheses are crudely stated and are not organized into a larger theory.
Academic text (1997) -
We've only looked at the numbers crudely, but that's how it comes out.
Academic text (1996) -
The Skraelings possessed the bow and arrow, but their hand weapons were still crudely made of stone.
Fiction book (2002) -
A long line of people, including some local natives, carry the sick in crudely made litters.
Fiction book (1993) -
"What is that?" Prue asked as Tremaine pulled a crudely carved stone statue from the case.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
12
2.8
In an awkward way that shows little skill or control
1
6.6
In a way that shows little skill or experience
1
5.5
In a clumsy way that is not graceful
1
8.3
In a rude way when talking about sex or other dirty topics
In a clumsy way that shows little skill
In a clumsy way that shows little ability
In a clumsy way that shows poor skill
In a clumsy or awkward way
Antonyms
How Refined
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Crudely comes from the old Latin word crudus meaning 'raw', like food that is 'not cooked'. So to do something crudely is to do it in a rough, not-finished way, without skill or careful finishing.