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Blasphemous vs Crude - What's the difference?

blasphemous | crude |

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)
  • Lacking piety or respect for the sacred. Resembling blasphemy.
  • His taking the name of God in vain was considered blasphemous .

    crude

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Being in a natural state.
  • crude oil
  • Characterized by simplicity, especially something not carefully or expertly made.
  • a crude shelter
  • Lacking concealing elements.
  • a crude truth
  • Lacking tact or taste.
  • a crude remark
  • (statistics) Being in an unanalyzed form.
  • crude data
  • (archaic) Immature or unripe.
  • (lb) pertaining to the uninflected stem of a word
  • 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 also

    Antonyms

    * (being in a natural state) refined, processed

    Derived terms

    * crudeness * crude oil * crude material * crude form/crudeform

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any substance in its natural state.
  • Crude oil.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= 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).}}

    Derived terms

    * syncrude

    Anagrams

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