Nouns (4)
petroleum, crude oil, rock oil, coal oil
n. a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons
Verbs (0)
Adverbs (0)
Adjectives (16)
unrefined
adj. not refined or processed; "unrefined ore"; "crude oil"
rude
adj. belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness; "the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains"
primitive, barbarous, gothic
adj. belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness; "the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains"
raw, unanalyzed
adj. not processed or subjected to analysis; "raw data"; "the raw cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics"
primitive, rude
adj. belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness; "the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains"
common, vulgar, coarse
adj. lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich"
artless, inexpert
adj. showing lack of art; "an artless translation"
common, coarse
adj. of low or inferior quality or value; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population"
Fuzzynyms (84)
gas, gasoline, gasolene, petrol
n. a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines
unfinished
adj. not brought to the desired final state
unfinished
adj. not brought to the desired final state
primitive, crude, barbarous, gothic
adj. belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness; "the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains"
crude, rude
adj. belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness; "the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains"
ignorant, nescient, unenlightened, unlearned, unlettered
adj. uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication; "an ignorant man"; "nescient of contemporary literature"; "an unlearned group incapable of understanding complex issues"; "exhibiting contempt for his unlettered companions"
illiterate, ignorant
adj. uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field; "she is ignorant of quantum mechanics"; "he is musically illiterate"
gross, earthy, coarse
adj. conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited"
common, crude, coarse
adj. of low or inferior quality or value; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population"
uncivilized
adj. without civilizing influences; "barbarian invaders"; "barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes"
wild, savage, barbarian, barbaric
adj. without civilizing influences; "barbarian invaders"; "barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes"
fell, savage, vicious, barbarous, roughshod, brutal, cruel
adj. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks"
gauche, graceless, unpolished
adj. lacking social polish; "too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate"; "their excellent manners always made me feel gauche"
tasteless, in poor taste
adj. lacking aesthetic or social taste
awkward
adj. lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance; "an awkward dancer"; "an awkward gesture"; "too awkward with a needle to make her own clothes"; "his clumsy fingers produced an awkward knot"
bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed
adj. lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands; "a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance"; "ham-handed governmental interference"; "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse
clumsy, gawky, ungainly, unwieldy
adj. lacking grace in movement or posture; "a gawky lad with long ungainly legs"; "clumsy fingers"; "what an ungainly creature a giraffe is"; "heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair"
artless, unsophisticated, unworldly
adj. not wise in the ways of the world; "either too unsophisticated or too honest to promise more than he could deliver"; "this helplessly unworldly woman"- Kate O'Brien
indelicate
adj. in violation of good taste even verging on the indecent; "an indelicate remark"; "an off-color joke"
lay, nonprofessional
adj. not professional; not engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or for gain; "the nonprofessional wives of his male colleagues"; "nonprofessional actors"
inartistic, unartistic
adj. lacking aesthetic sensibility;
inaesthetic, unaesthetic
adj. violating aesthetic canons or requirements; deficient in tastefulness or beauty; "inaesthetic and quite unintellectual"; "peered through those inaesthetic spectacles"
awkward
adj. lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance; "an awkward dancer"; "an awkward gesture"; "too awkward with a needle to make her own clothes"; "his clumsy fingers produced an awkward knot"
gross, earthy, coarse
adj. conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vulgar it should have been edited"
common, crude, vulgar, coarse
adj. lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich"
foul, vile, noisome, nauseating, nauseous, sickening
adj. causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"
profane
adj. not sacred or concerned with religion; "sacred and profane music"; "children being brought up in an entirely profane environment"
medium, middle, average, intermediate
adj. around the middle of a scale of evaluation of physical measures; "an orange of average size"; "intermediate capacity"; "a plane with intermediate range"; "medium bombers"
Synonyms (162)
natural, raw, rude
adj. (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes; "natural yogurt"; "natural produce"; "raw wool"; "raw sugar"; "bales of rude cotton"
abrasive, scratchy
adj. causing abrasion
cracked, alligatored
adj. of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide
barky
adj. resembling the rough bark of a tree; "the rattlesnake's barky scales"
broken, rugged
adj. topographically very uneven; "broken terrain"; "rugged ground"
bullate
adj. of leaves; appearing puckered as if blistered
jarring, bumpy, jolting, jolty
adj. covered with or full of bumps; "a bumpy country road"
cracked, chapped, roughened
adj. used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure; "chapped lips"
coarse
adj. "coarse skin"; "coarse woolens"
twill, pique, corded, twilled
adj. of textiles; having parallel raised lines
corduroy
adj. made of corduroy fabric
corduroy, log
adj. (of roads) made of logs laid down crosswise: "a corduroy road"
corrugated
adj. shaped into alternating parallel grooves and ridges; "the surface of the ocean was rippled and corrugated"
ribbed, costate
adj. (of the surface) having a rough, riblike texture
craggy, mountainous, cragged, hilly
adj. having hills and crags; "hilly terrain"
crushed
adj. treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance; "crushed velvet"
lined, furrowed, seamed
adj. (used especially of skin) marked by lines or seams; "their lined faces were immeasurably sad"; "a seamed face"
grooved, canaliculate
adj. having thin parallel channels; "canaliculate leafstalks of certain plants"
homespun, nubby, nubbly, slubbed, tweedy
adj. of textiles; having a rough surface; "a sweater knitted of nubbly homespun yarns"
imbricate, imbricated
adj. used especially of leaves or bracts; overlapping or layered as scales or shingles
scaly, scabrous, leprose, scabby, scurfy
adj. rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf
pocked, potholed, pot-holed
adj. used of paved surfaces having holes or pits
wrinkled, puckered, wrinkly
adj. marked with wrinkles or furrows; "her ancient wrinkled cheeks"
rocky, stony, bouldery, bouldered
adj. abounding in rocks or stones; "rocky fields"; "stony ground"; "bouldery beaches"
roughish
adj. somewhat rough
rugose
adj. of leaves; ridged or wrinkled
rutted, rutty
adj. full of ruts; "rutty farm roads"
textured, rough-textured
adj. having surface roughness; "a textured wall of stucco"; "a rough-textured tweed"
unsmooth
adj. having or caused by an irregular surface; "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face"
verrucose, warty
adj. (of skin) covered with warts or projections that resemble warts
wild, savage, barbarian, barbaric
adj. without civilizing influences; "barbarian invaders"; "barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes"
preliterate, nonliterate
adj. used of a society that has not developed writing
uncategorized, unsorted
adj. not categorized or sorted
beginning, novice
adj. serving to begin; "the beginning canto of the poem"; "the first verse"
embryonic, embryotic, in embryo
adj. in an early stage of development; "the embryonic government staffed by survivors of the massacre"; "an embryonic nation, not yet self-governing"
incipient, inchoate
adj. only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; "incipient civil disorder"; "an incipient tumor"; "a vague inchoate idea"
precocious
adj. appearing or developing early; "precocious flowers appear before the leaves as in some species of magnolias"
primitive
adj. little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type; "archaic forms of life"; "primitive mammals"; "the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe"
artless, uncultivated, uncultured
adj. (of persons) lacking art or knowledge
clownish, boorish, loutish, neanderthal, oafish
adj. ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude"
crass
adj. (of persons) so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility
rude, underbred, ill-bred, bounderish, lowbred, uncouth
adj. (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace
low
adj. unrefined in character; "low comedy"
rough
adj. (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse; "she was a diamond in the rough"; "rough manners"
rough-spoken
adj. rude or uncouth in speech
ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike
adj. not befitting a gentleman
unladylike
adj. lacking the behavior or manner or style considered proper for a lady
amateur, unprofessional, amateurish
adj. lacking professional skill or expertise; "a very amateurish job"; "inexpert but conscientious efforts"; "an unskilled painting"
butcherly, botchy, unskillful, unskilful
adj. poorly done; "a botchy piece of work"; "it was an unskillful attempt"
bungled
adj. spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness; "a bungled job"
clumsy, lubberly
adj. clumsy and unskilled; "a big stupid lubberly fellow"
menial, humble, lowly
adj. used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)
incompetent
adj. showing lack of skill or aptitude; "a bungling workman"; "did a clumsy job"; "his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf"
rusty, out of practice
adj. impaired in skill by neglect
semiskilled
adj. possessing or requiring limited skills; "semiskilled dockworkers"; "a semiskilled job"
bad
adj. below average in quality or performance; "a bad chess player"; "a bad recital"
base
adj. (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal; "base coins of aluminum"; "a base metal"
bum, punk, cheap, chintzy, tinny, sleazy, cheesy, crummy, tatty
adj. of very poor quality; flimsy
cardboard, flimsy
adj. resembling cardboard especially in flimsiness; "apartments with cardboard walls"
shoddy, cheapjack, tawdry
adj. cheap and shoddy; "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist
coarsened
adj. made coarse or crude by lack of skill
commercial
adj. of the kind or quality used in commerce; average or inferior; "commercial grade of beef"; "commercial oxalic acid"
miserable, wretched, execrable, deplorable, woeful
adj. of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"
less
adj. (usually preceded by `no') lower in quality; "no less than perfect"
low-grade
adj. of inferior quality
poor, mediocre, second-rate
adj. moderate to inferior in quality; "they improved the quality from mediocre to above average"
ropey, ropy
adj. (British informal) very poor in quality; "ropey food"; "a ropey performance"
scrawny, scrubby, stunted
adj. inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees"
second-class
adj. of inferior status or quality; "a second-class citizen"; "second-class accommodations"
third-rate
adj. of lesser quality than second-rate
utility, utility-grade
adj. used of beef; usable but inferior
Antonyms (24)
civilized, polite, cultivated, cultured, genteel
adj. marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"
refined
adj. (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste"
refined
adj. (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste"
fabulous, fab
adj. extremely pleasing; "a fabulous vacation"
civilized, polite, cultivated, cultured, genteel
adj. marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"
polished
adj. perfected or made shiny and smooth; "his polished prose"; "in a freshly ironed dress and polished shoes"; "freshly polished silver"
debonair, debonaire, suave, polished, debonnaire
adj. having a sophisticated charm; "a debonair gentleman"
dignified
adj. having or expressing dignity; especially formality or stateliness in bearing or appearance; "her dignified demeanor"; "the director of the school was a dignified white-haired gentleman"
elegant
adj. refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style; "elegant handwriting"; "an elegant dark suit"; "she was elegant to her fingertips"; "small churches with elegant white spires"; "an elegant mathematical solution--simple and precise and lucid"
in good taste, tasteful
adj. having or showing or conforming to good taste
crude
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