Check Dictionary

Find out more about word, its definitions etc.

Valid in these dictionaries

TWL/NWL (Scrabble US/CA/TH)
SOWPODS/CSW (Scrabble UK / ALL)
ENABLE (Words with Friends)

Meaning of crude

1 definition found

From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  crude
      adj 1: not carefully or expertly made; "managed to make a crude
             splint"; "a crude cabin of logs with bark still on them";
             "rough carpentry" [syn: {crude}, {rough}]
      2: 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" [syn: {crude},
         {earthy}, {gross}, {vulgar}]
      3: not refined or processed; "unrefined ore"; "crude oil" [syn:
         {unrefined}, {unprocessed}, {crude}] [ant: {processed},
         {refined}]
      4: 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" [syn: {crude}, {primitive},
         {rude}]
      5: devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; "the
         blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality of
         the deadline" [syn: {blunt}, {crude(a)}, {stark(a)}]
      6: not processed or subjected to analysis; "raw data"; "the raw
         cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics" [syn:
         {crude}, {raw}]
      n 1: a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons [syn:
           {petroleum}, {crude oil}, {crude}, {rock oil}, {fossil
           oil}, {oil}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

Use this dictionary checker to learn more about a word - find out its meaning and also make sure whether that word is a valid word in any of these dictionaries (used by popular word games). Here is the list of dictionaries it checks for :

OCTWL / TWL : The official dictionary for scrabble game in United States, Canada and Thailand.
SOWPODS / CSW : UK and the rest of the world uses this dictionary for various word games including scrabble.
ENABLE - This is the default dictionary for Words with Friends.

The dictionary checker is also good at solving any issue with a disputed word when you're playing scramble games gainst your friends or family members. As a bonus, you also learn new words while having fun!

Back to Word Unscrambler