Qualities
Synonyms for crude
Synonyms for crude: rough and raw. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for crude
Interchangeable with crude in this sense
Audited under crude's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one crude carries in that sense.
- roughadjective, in the sense "not carefully or expertly made"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name crude as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- rawraw is an adjective in the sense "not processed or subjected to analysis"
The first group is filed under crude's own sense. The second reaches crude from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
not carefully or expertly made
A crude cabin of logs with bark still on them.
The true synonym
rough
Same sentence, swapped: A rough cabin of logs with bark still on them.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- stark
- sensational
- colorful
Where crude turns up in the game
crude is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where crude is the trap
- bluntadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is frank, in the sense "characterized by directness in manner or speech", and crude is one of the three tiles that lose.
- roughadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is rocky, in the sense "full of hardship or trials", and crude is on the board beside it.
- amateurishadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is unskilled, in the sense "lacking professional skill or expertise", and crude is on the board beside it.
Play crude
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so crude reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other qualities words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
crude is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 3. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.