Crude vs Brute - What's the difference?
crude | brute |
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.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Without reason or intelligence (of animals).
Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans).
* Milton
Being unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless.
Crude, unpolished.
* Sir Walter Scott
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Strong, blunt, and spontaneous.
Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless.
* 1714 , (Bernard Mandeville), The Fable of the Bees :
* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.17:
A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person.
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(archaic, slang, UK, Cambridge University) One who has not yet matriculated.
As adjectives the difference between crude and brute
is that crude is being in a natural state while brute is without reason or intelligence (of animals).As nouns the difference between crude and brute
is that crude is any substance in its natural state while brute is an animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast.As a verb brute is
obsolete spelling of lang=en.crude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).}}
Derived terms
* syncrudeAnagrams
* ----brute
English
(wikipedia brute)Adjective
(more)- a brute beast
- A creature not prone / And brute as other creatures, but endued / With sanctity of reason.
- the brute''' earth; the '''brute powers of nature
- a great brute farmer from Liddesdale
- I punched him with brute force.
- brute violence
Noun
(en noun)- they laid before them how unbecoming it was the Dignity of such sublime Creatures to be sollicitous about gratifying those Appetites, which they had in common with Brutes , and at the same time unmindful of those higher qualities that gave them the preeminence over all visible Beings.
- But if he lives badly, he will, in the next life, be a woman; if he (or she) persists in evil-doing, he (or she) will become a brute , and go on through transmigrations until at last reason conquers.
- One of them was a hulking brute of a man, heavily tattooed and with a hardened face that practically screamed "I just got out of jail."
- She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
