CRUDE Synonyms

• not treated with heat to prepare it for eating

• informal terms for nakedness

• (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes

• having the surface exposed and painful

• not processed or refined

• devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure

• brutally unfair or harsh

• not processed or subjected to analysis

• untempered and unrefined

• hurting

• unpleasantly cold and damp

• used of wood and furniture

• lacking training or experience

• (used informally) completely unclothed

• of or consisting of or resembling earth

• conspicuously and tastelessly indecent

• not far removed from or suggestive of nature

• hearty and lusty

• sensible and practical

• having or caused by an irregular surface

• of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped

• causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements

• not shaped by cutting or trimming

• the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short

• with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly')

• with rough motion as over a rough surface

• (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse

• not quite exact or correct

• full of hardship or trials

• violently agitated and turbulent

• unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound

• ready and able to resort to force or violence

• not carefully or expertly made

• not perfected

• unpleasantly stern

• unkind or cruel or uncivil

• prepare in preliminary or sketchy form

• not refined or processed

• (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth

• pertaining to or constituting a base or basis

• (usually in the plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant

• a popular programming language that is relatively easy to learn; an acronym for beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code; no longer in general use

• reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality

• serving as a base or starting point

• of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base

• lacking grace in movement or posture

• not elegant or graceful in expression

• difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape

• showing lack of skill or aptitude

• of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles

• lacking refinement or cultivation or taste

• of low or inferior quality or value

• lacking graciousness

• lacking grace; clumsy

• lacking social polish

• a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater

• misfortune resulting in lost effort or money

• a worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.)

• a tool for gutting fish

• burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker

• flow in small streams

• wear or cut gutters into

• provide with gutters

• combined with extraneous elements

• (used of persons or behaviors) immoral or obscene

• having a physical or moral blemish so as to make impure according to dietary or ceremonial laws

• offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters

• not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society

• offending against sexual mores in conduct or appearance

• suggestive of or tending to moral looseness

• driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires

• a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits

• characteristic of a person who is not cultivated or does not have intellectual tastes

• designed to incite to indecency or lust

• offensive to the mind

• suggestive of or tending to moral looseness

• sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring

• having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface

• topographically very uneven

• very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution

• lacking flavor

• lacking aesthetic or social taste

• lacking refinement or cultivation or taste

• (of land or fields) not prepared for raising crops

• (of persons) lacking art or knowledge

• characteristic of a person who is not cultivated or does not have intellectual tastes

• not carefully reworked or perfected or made smooth by polishing

• lacking social polish