Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

crudesome

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: crude-s-ome
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Characterised or marked by crudeness.

Example Sentences

"That jungle apes, for ages long, / Roamed through the woods in motley throng, / Whilst struggling for some sort of speech / Better than crudesome howl and screech."
"It is important to remember this distinction for, while he had praised Indian worker in gold for producing 'beautiful design out of nothing but crudesome knots and spirals' in his essay 'A Joy For Ever' (1873), elsewhere he had criticized the abstract patterns in Indian products for not showing an interest in nature."

Etymology

From crude + -some.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: crude

Inflected Forms

more crudesome (comparative) most crudesome (superlative)

Questions

What does crudesome mean?: Characterised or marked by crudeness.
Where does crudesome come from?: From crude + -some.

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