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Crudeness

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Noun

1. crudeness, crudity, primitiveness, primitivism, rudeness

a wild or unrefined state

2. crudeness, crudity, gaucheness

an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement

Example Sentences:
'the whole town was famous for its crudeness'

3. crudeness, roughness

an unpolished unrefined quality

Example Sentences:
'the crudeness of frontier dwellings depressed her'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Crudeness

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adjective
1. 
lacking taste, tact, or refinement; vulgar
a crude joke
2. 
in a natural or unrefined state
3. 
lacking care, knowledge, or skill
a crude sketch
4. (prenominal)
stark; blunt
the crude facts
5. 
(of statistical data) unclassified or unanalysed
6. archaic
unripe
noun
7.  short for crude oil

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Crudeness

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adjectiveWord forms: ˈcruder or ˈcrudest
1. 
in a raw or natural condition, before being prepared for use; not refined or processed
2. 
lacking finish, grace, tact, or taste; uncultured
crude remark
3. 
not carefully made or done; rough
crude woodwork
4. 
stark and bare; undisguised or unadorned
crude reality
5.  Archaic
not ripe; immature
6.  Statistics
untreated as by analysis, differentiated into groups, etc.
noun US
7. 
an unrefined or unprocessed substance; specif., crude petroleum

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Crudeness

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adj. crud·er, crud·est
1. Being in an unrefined or natural state: crude cotton.
2. Lacking tact or taste; blunt or offensive: a crude, mannerless oaf; a crude remark.
3. Lacking in sophistication or subtlety; simplistic: had only a crude notion of how a computer works.
4. Not carefully or skillfully made; rough: a quick, crude sketch.
5. Undisguised or unadorned; plain: must face the crude truth.
6. Statistics In an unanalyzed form; not adjusted to allow for related circumstances or data.
7. Archaic Unripe or immature.
n.
A substance, especially petroleum, in its unrefined state.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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