Adjective: crudesome
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more crudesome |
| Superlative | most crudesome |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1917, Sol Sunderland, Jungle Apes Abroad:]
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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. [1992, Partha Mitter, Much Maligned Monsters:]
Adjectives inflected like crudesome
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From crude + -some.