Blasphemous vs Crude - What's the difference?
blasphemous | crude |
Lacking piety or respect for the sacred. Resembling blasphemy.
Being in a natural state.
Characterized by simplicity, especially something not carefully or expertly made.
Lacking concealing elements.
Lacking tact or taste.
(statistics) Being in an unanalyzed form.
(archaic) Immature or unripe.
(lb) pertaining to the uninflected stem of a word
Any substance in its natural state.
Crude oil.
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As adjectives the difference between blasphemous and crude
is that blasphemous is lacking piety or respect for the sacred resembling blasphemy while crude is being in a natural state.As a noun crude is
any substance in its natural state.blasphemous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- His taking the name of God in vain was considered blasphemous .
crude
English
Adjective
(er)- crude oil
- a crude shelter
- a crude truth
- a crude remark
- crude data
Synonyms
* (being in a natural state) raw, unrefined, unprocessed * (characterized by simplicity) primitive, rough, rude, rudimentary * (lacking concealing elements) obvious, plain, unadorned, undisguised * (lacking tact or taste) blunt, coarse, earthy, gross, stark, uncultivated, vulgar * raw * See'' immature''' ''or'' ' unripe * See alsoAntonyms
* (being in a natural state) refined, processedDerived terms
* crudeness * crude oil * crude material * crude form/crudeformNoun
(en noun)Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).}}