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artless |
lacking skill or refinement; crude. [1/3 definitions] |
barbarian |
a rough, crude person. [1/2 definitions] |
barbaric |
lacking manners or refined taste; crude. [1/2 definitions] |
barbarism |
a crude or brutal act, custom, or characteristic. [1/3 definitions] |
barbarous |
crude; uncivilized. [1/3 definitions] |
boor |
a peasant or yokel, esp. a crude or illiterate one. [1/2 definitions] |
boorish |
of or resembling a boor; rude; ill-mannered; crude. |
caoutchouc |
crude rubber obtained from the milky juice of rubber trees or plants. |
cave man |
(informal) a man who is rough, crude, or brutal, esp. toward women. [1/2 definitions] |
clodhopper |
an unsophisticated country person; crude person; bumpkin. [1/2 definitions] |
clown |
a crude, impolite, or oafish person. [1/4 definitions] |
coarse |
without social skills; crude; vulgar. [1/2 definitions] |
coarse-grained |
unrefined; indelicate; crude. [1/2 definitions] |
crass |
lacking in sensitivity or refinement; crude. |
crude |
unrefined petroleum; crude oil. [1/7 definitions] |
crudity |
the quality or condition of being crude. [2 definitions] |
culverin |
a crude musket made in medieval times. [1/2 definitions] |
daub |
to paint with thick, crude strokes. [2/7 definitions] |
doggerel |
of verse, trivial or mundane in thought, or crude in form. [1/2 definitions] |
gaffe |
a crude social error; blunder; faux pas. |
gauche |
deficient in manners or other conventions of social behavior; boorish; crude. |
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