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crudity

N การ หยาบคาย  kan-yab-kai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CRUDITY

n.[L.] Rawness; crudeness. Among physicians, undigested substances in the stomach; or unconcocted humors, not well prepared for expulsion; excrements. In the latter senses, it admits of the plural.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CRUDITY

Cru "di *ty (kr "d-t ), n.; pl. Crudities (-t. Etym: [L. cruditas, fr. crudus: cf. F. crudit. See Crude. ]

 

1. The condition of being crude; rawness.

 

2. That which is in a crude or undigested state; hence, superficial, undigested views, not reduced to order or form. "Cridities in the stomach. " Arbuthnot.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

crudity

cru di ty |ˈkro͞oditē ˈkruːdəti | noun 1 the quality of being rudimentary or makeshift; primitiveness: he criticizes the crudity of design. 2 the quality of being offensively coarse or rude; vulgarity: the crudity of the language.

 

Oxford Dictionary

crudity

cru |dity |ˈkruːdɪti | noun [ mass noun ] 1 the quality of being rudimentary or makeshift; primitiveness: he criticises the crudity of design. 2 the quality of being offensively coarse or rude; vulgarity: the crudity of the language.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

crudity

crudity noun 1 we must allow for the crudity of these statistical methods: primitiveness, simplicity, oversimplicity, roughness, inaccuracy; lack of refinement, lack of sophistication; dated rudeness. ANTONYMS sophistication. 2 she shrank from his crudity and teasing: vulgarity, rudeness, suggestiveness, raciness, earthiness, bawdiness, blueness, smuttiness, smut, lewdness, salaciousness, licentiousness, ribaldry, seaminess, dirtiness, filthiness, dirt, filth, boorishness, coarseness, uncouthness, indecency, obscenity, indelicacy, indelicateness, crassness, tastelessness, offensiveness; informal naughtiness, raunchiness, sleaziness, steaminess, porn; Brit. informal fruitiness, sauciness; N. Amer. informal gaminess. ANTONYMS decency.