Crossword clues for cruder
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crude \Crude\ (kr[udd]d), a. [Compar. Cruder (-[~e]r); superl. Crudest.] [L. crudus raw; akin to cruor blood (which flows from a wound). See Raw, and cf. Cruel.]
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In its natural state; not cooked or prepared by fire or heat; undressed; not altered, refined, or prepared for use by any artificial process; raw; as, crude flesh. ``Common crude salt.''
--Boyle.Molding to its will each successive deposit of the crude materials.
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Unripe; not mature or perfect; immature.
I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude.
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Not reduced to order or form; unfinished; not arranged or prepared; ill-considered; immature. ``Crude projects.''
--Macaulay.Crude, undigested masses of suggestion, furnishing rather raw materials for composition.
--De Quincey.The originals of Nature in their crude Conception.
--Milton. Undigested; unconcocted; not brought into a form to give nourishment. ``Crude and inconcoct.''
--Bacon.Having, or displaying, superficial and undigested knowledge; without culture or profundity; as, a crude reasoner.
(Paint.) Harsh and offensive, as a color; tawdry or in bad taste, as a combination of colors, or any design or work of art.
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparative of: crude)
Usage examples of "cruder".
The head was that of an early robot, not humaniform, somewhat cruder than Plussix.
Between these stately fleets scuttled cruder craft, rafts of mangrove and bamboo and reed.
It was cruder, more like a mundane tree, with light bark on the tentacles, and it lacked the pleasant greensward and sweet perfume beneath.
For a person attuned to the end product, the cruder ancestral version was hard to identify.
Incidentally, we think the Draka are using a much cruder form of this to mine ice from Sinope or Himalia, off Jupiter.
The flow of fissionables from the asteroids in turn reduces the cost of transport much cruder methods.
No doubt his tastes were limited to the cruder forms of stimulk, or even the more direct stims favored in the military and police services.
In some cases, these official displays had been supplemented by notes and still cruder drawings added by customers waiting on a full night.
The agent realized that he had been seeing a cruder example of the influencing technique that Calvus had described herself as using.
This gives them a hellacious throughput, but their mag bottle technology's cruder than ours, and it takes an extremely dense field.
Endymion's datanet wove a deadly, fine-meshed net of warheads and spitting lasers, ripping the incoming missiles apart, and the enemy's cruder command and control systems split his fire into smaller salvos that couldn't saturate the battlegroup's defenses.
Not of surprise—it was a given that the Bugs realized how much their cruder datalink hurt them and were working to redress the balance—but at the thought of losing their greatest advantage in a missile engagement.
They didn't have FRAMs, but their R&D had produced the cruder nuclear-armed FR, and a gunboat carried three times as many as a fighter.
There, on a rugged coastline, they found a relatively sheltered harbor and began a settlement in conditions far cruder and more primitive than those at Jakarta or the newly founded Calcutta.
She flipped through sketches of barren lava, slumped and tangled yggdrasils, until the style became much simpler, cruder: the work she had done by herself, after the death of Yeshova.