Definitions
not processed or subjected to analysis
Word origin
From Middle English crude, borrowed from Latin crūdus (“raw, bloody, uncooked, undigested, crude”). Doublet of crudo, from Italian. Cognate with Old English hrēaw (“raw, uncooked”) via Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“raw blood”); more at raw.
Used in a sentence
“crude oil”
“a crude shelter”
“a crude estimate”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Unrefined”5 letters
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