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Definition: Crudity |
CrudityNoun1. A wild or unrefined state. 2. An impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement; "the whole town was famous for its crudeness". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "crudity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Etymology: Crudity \Cru"di*ty\ (kr[udd]"d[i^]*t[y^]), noun; plural Crudities(-t[i^]z). [Latin cruditas, from crudus: compare to French crudit['e]. See Crude.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: CruditySynonyms: crudeness (n), gaucheness (n), primitiveness (n), primitivism (n), rudeness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Nonpreparation | Immaturity, crudity; rawness; Adjective:; abortion; disqualification. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Crudity |
| English words defined with "crudity": Crudities. (references) |
| "Crudity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Crudity" is used about 32 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 32 | 61,292 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
crudity | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "crudity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vulgaritet (harshness, vulgarism, vulgarity), vrazhdësi (abruptness, asperity, barbarity, brutality, clownery, harshness, incivility, roughness, rudeness, rusticity, truculence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | خامية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | грубост (asperity, barbarity, broadness, callosity, curtness, foulness, harshness, incivility, indelicacy, roughness, rudeness, toughness, truculence), необработеност (roughness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "硬 (Crudities). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | neumìlost, nejapnost (gaucherie, ineptitude, ineptness), hulvátství, hrubost (broadness, coarseness, crassitude, roughness, rudeness, vulgarity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ناپختگی , ناهنجاری (Inelegance, Malformation), خامی (Inexperience). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | raakuus (brutality, coarseness, rawness, rudeness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Unfertigkeit (incompleteness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | χοντροκοπιά (coarseness), ακατέργαστο (crud). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חוסר ע"ון, 'סות (coarseness, harshness, roughness, rudeness), בורות (ignorance, illiteracy), בוסר (immaturity, sour, unripe fruit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nyerseség (asperity, bluntness, coarseness, gruffness, rawness, surliness, unkindness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | l'essere grezzo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uditycray crueza (rawness). (various references) грубость (asperity, broadness, callousness, coarseness, crudeness, discourtesy, harshness, ill breeding, ribaldry, roughness, rudeness, ruffianism, scurrility, truculence), незрелость (greenness, immaturity, nonage, verdancy, viridity). (various references) presno povrće. (various references) crudeza (bitterness, brutality, rawness, unripeness), vulgaridad (banality, loudness, vulgarity), tosquedad (clumsiness, coarseness, rawness, roughness), brutalidad (brutality, brutishness, cruelty, roughness). (various references) råhet (coarseness, foulness, rawness, savagery), plumphet (indelicacy, scurrility), omogenhet (greenness, immaturity, nonage), grovhet (coarseness, heaviness, rawness, roughness). (various references) yavanlık (aridity, barrenness, dryness, insipidity, insipidness, prosiness), tatsız tuzsuzluk, kabalık (abruptness, asperity, barbarism, barbarity, boorishness, brusqueness, coarseness, crassness, crudeness, discourtesy, disrespect, earthiness, gall, gothicism, gruffness, harshness, impolite behaviour, impoliteness, incivility, indelicacy, inelegance, loutishness, rankness, roughness, rudeness, rusticity, shortness, vulgarism, vulgarity), hamlık (crudeness, greenness, immaturity, lack of condition, languor, rawness, unripeness). (various references) грубість (abruptness, asperity, barbarism, barbarity, broadness, brutality, callousness, clumsiness, coarseness, harshness, roughness, rusticity, shagginess, truculence), нерозробленість, необробленість (rawness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Crudity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bridity, crudet, crudit, crudite, cruditie, cudit. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "crudity" (pronounced 'Cru"di*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-i-r-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: curdy, dicty, dirty. | |
-3 letters: city, crud, curd, curt, dirt, duci, duct, duit, duty, tidy, turd, uric, yird, yurt. | |
-4 letters: cry, cud, cur, cut, dit, dry, dui, icy, rid, rut, tic, try, tui, urd, yid. | |
-5 letters: id, it, ti, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-i-r-t-u-y" | |
+2 letters: credulity. | |
+3 letters: judicatory. | |
+4 letters: countryfied, countryside, countrywide, discourtesy, incredulity, reductively, rubicundity. | |
+5 letters: adjudicatory, countrysides, denunciatory, diuretically, introductory, productively, productivity, reducibility. | |
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