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crudity
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun crudity has 2 senses
- crudity(n = noun.state) crudeness, primitiveness, primitivism, rudeness - a wild or unrefined state; Array is a kind of natural state, state of nature, wild
- crudity(n = noun.attribute) crudeness, gaucheness - an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement; "the whole town was famous for its crudeness" is a kind of impoliteness
Derived forms adjective crude6, adjective crude4, adjective crude3
Derived form adjective crude2
CIDE DICTIONARY
crudity, n. [L. cruditas, fr. crudus: cf. F. crudité. See Crude.].
- The condition of being crude; rawness. [1913 Webster]
- That which is in a crude or undigested state; hence, superficial, undigested views, not reduced to order or form. Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
crudity
callowness, coarseness, crassness, crudeness, earthiness, gaudiness, greenness, grossness, immatureness, immaturity, loudness, meretriciousness, nondevelopment, obscenity, oversimplicity, oversimplification, rawness, reductionism, ribaldry, roughness, rudeness, simplism, the rough, uncultivation, undevelopment, unfinish, unfinishedness, unfledgedness, unrefinement, unripenessROGET THESAURUS
crudity
Nonpreparation
N nonpreparation, non-preparation, absence of preparation, want of preparation, inculture, inconcoction, improvidence, immaturity, crudity, rawness, abortion, disqualification, nature, state of nature, virgin soil, unweeded garden, neglect, rough copy, germ, raw material, improvisation, unprepared (prepare), without preparation, incomplete, rudimental, embryonic, abortive, immature, unripe, kachcha, raw, green, crude, coarse, rough cast, rough hewn, in the rough, unhewn, unformed, unfashioned, unwrought, unlabored, unblown, uncooked, unboiled, unconcocted, unpolished, unhatched, unfledged, unnurtured, unlicked, untaught, uneducated, uncultivated, untrained, untutored, undrilled, unexercised, deckle- edged, precocious, premature, undigested, indigested, unmellowed, unseasoned, unleavened, unrehearsed, unscripted, extemporaneous, improvised, spontaneous, ad lib, ad libitem, fallow, unsown, untilled, natural, in a state of nature, undressed, in dishabille, en deshabille, unqualified, disqualified, unfitted, ill-digested, unbegun, unready, unarranged, unorganized, unfurnished, unprovided, unequipped, untrimmed, out of gear, out of order, dismantled, shiftless, improvident, unthrifty, thriftless, thoughtless, unguarded, happy-go- lucky, caught napping, unpremeditated, extempore.
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