different between unpleasant vs crude

English

Etymology

From Middle English unplesaunt, equivalent to un- +? pleasant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?plez?nt/

Adjective

unpleasant (comparative unpleasanter or more unpleasant, superlative unpleasantest or most unpleasant)

1. Not pleasant.
   • c. 1596, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene 2,^[1]

     O sweet Portia,

     Here are a few of the unpleasant’st words

     That ever blotted paper!

   • 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt, p. 214,^[2]

     It was indeed one admirable piece of Conduct in the said Magistrates, that the Streets were kept constantly clear, and free from all manner of frightful Objects, dead Bodies, or any such things as were indecent or unpleasant, unless where any Body fell down suddenly or died in the Streets […]

   • 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 35,^[3]

     The very circumstance, in its unpleasantest form, which they would each have been most anxious to avoid, had fallen on them.

   • 1865, Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter 1,^[4]

     […] she had read several nice little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them […]

   • 1921, Walter de la Mare, Memoirs of a Midget, Chapter 37,^[5]

     And I dipped into novels so like the unpleasanter parts of my own life that they might just as well have been autobiographies.

Derived terms

• unpleasantness

Synonyms

• disagreeable

Translations

Anagrams

• pennatulas

English

Etymology

From Middle English crude, borrowed from Latin cr?dus (“raw, bloody, uncooked, undigested, crude”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *krewh?- (“raw meat, fresh blood”). Cognate with Old English hr?aw (“raw, uncooked”). More at raw.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kro?od, IPA^(key): /k?u?d/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /k??d/
• Rhymes: -u?d
• Homophone: crewed (except Scotland)

Adjective

crude (comparative cruder, superlative crudest)

1. In a natural, untreated state.

   Synonym: raw, unrefined, unprocessed

2. Characterized by simplicity, especially something not carefully or expertly made.

   Synonym: primitive, rough, rude, rudimentary

3. Lacking concealing elements.

   Synonym: obvious, plain, unadorned, undisguised

4. Lacking tact or taste.

   Synonym: blunt, coarse, earthy, gross, stark, uncultivated, vulgar

5. (archaic) Immature or unripe.

   Synonyms: immature, unripe

6. (grammar) Pertaining to the uninflected stem of a word.

Synonyms

• (statistics: in an unanalyzed form): raw
• See also Thesaurus:raw

Antonyms

• (being in a natural state): refined, processed

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

crude (countable and uncountable, plural crudes)

1. Any substance in its natural state.
2. Crude oil.

Derived terms

• syncrude

Translations

Anagrams

• Druce, Ducre, cured

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ude

Adjective

crude

1. feminine plural of crudo

Anagrams

• curde

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kru?.de/, [?k?u?d??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kru.de/, [?k?u?d??]

Adjective

cr?de

1. vocative masculine singular of cr?dus

References

• crude in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English cr?dan.

Verb

crude

1. Alternative form of crouden

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin cr?dus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kriu?d(?)/

Adjective

crude

1. unprocessed, uncooked, unworked (in a negative way)

Derived terms

• crudelite

Descendants

• English: crude

References

• “cr?de, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-10.