crude
Raw and rough
Anything crude is rudimentary, undeveloped, or in its most basic form (crude oil, crude implement).
Applied to speech or behavior, crude has a negative connotation associated with vulgarity.
When used as a noun, crude is usually just a shortening of crude oil (Brent crude, crude stockpiles).
Grossly offensive to decency
- lewdObscenely sexual
- profaneIrreverent toward the sacred
- indecentOffensive to accepted standards
- coarseRough in texture
dirty · raunchy · ribald · bawdy · tasteless · offensive · smutty · blue
In original state
- unprocessedNot yet treated
- naturalNot artificially produced
- unpolishedLacking finish or refinement
- roughUneven in surface
primitive · basic · rudimentary · undeveloped · unsophisticated · unfinished · untreated · coarse
Natural underground hydrocarbon liquid
- unrefinedNot processed or polished
- barrelHooped cylindrical vessel
- drillingHole-making by rotation
- pipelineLong-distance fluid transport tube
refinery · extraction · offshore · upstream · tanker · OPEC · hydrocarbons · wellhead
Uneven in surface
- improvisedCreated without prior planning
- basicFundamental in nature
- primitiveIn earliest form
- slapdashHasty and careless
jerry-rigged · rudimentary · amateurish · unsophisticated · simple · rough-and-ready · cobbled · slipshod
Insensitive in manner
- undiplomaticLacking tact or finesse
- indelicateLacking refinement or tact
- brusqueAbrupt and dismissive
- unsubtleLacking nuance or delicacy
graceless · insensitive · clumsy · ham-fisted · inelegant · gauche · maladroit · unpolished
obscene
Grossly offensive to decency
coarse · dirty · raunchy · ribald · bawdy · tasteless · offensive · smutty · blue · ripe
raw
In original state
- unprocessedNot yet treated
- naturalNot artificially produced
- unpolishedLacking finish or refinement
rough · primitive · basic · rudimentary · undeveloped · unsophisticated · unfinished · untreated · coarse · simple
petroleum
Natural underground hydrocarbon liquid
pipeline · refinery · extraction · offshore · upstream · tanker · OPEC · hydrocarbons · wellhead · bitumen
rough
Uneven in surface
- improvisedCreated without prior planning
- basicFundamental in nature
- primitiveIn earliest form
slapdash · jerry-rigged · rudimentary · amateurish · unsophisticated · simple · rough-and-ready · cobbled · slipshod · patched
tactless
Insensitive in manner
- undiplomaticLacking tact or finesse
- indelicateLacking refinement or tact
- brusqueAbrupt and dismissive
unsubtle · graceless · insensitive · clumsy · ham-fisted · inelegant · gauche · maladroit · unpolished · rough-hewn
- unrefinedcoarse, rough, unpolished, uncouth, vulgar
- oil industrypetroleum, oil fields, oil well, oil rig, oil production
- risquerisque, racy, bawdy, ribald, suggestive
- speech registersformal, informal, casual, colloquial, vernacular
- vulgarityvulgar humor, crass, coarse, obscene, profanity
- rough-and-readymakeshift, improvised, rough, provisional, stopgap
cruderefined
Purified or cultured
polished · sophisticated · civilized · cultivated · genteel
crudesophisticated
Worldly and cultured
refined · polished · elaborate · perfected · consummate
- crude oilUnrefined fossil fuel
- crude language
- crude jokesHumor emphasizing the indelicate
- crude gesturesOffensive physical expressions
- The CrucibleDrama about witch accusations
- barrel of crude
recruit, crudely, crudeness, crucible, crudity, cruder, crudest, crude oil, crudities