Ancient and Crude

Ancient

Ancient adjective - Dating or surviving from the distant past.

Crude and ancient are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Crude" instead an adjective "Ancient".

Nearby Word: anciently

Crude

Crude adjective - Belonging to or characteristic of an early level of skill or development.
Usage example: the crude stone tools that those prehistoric peoples used

Ancient and crude are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ancient" instead an adjective "Crude".

Nearby Words: crudity, crudely

Mutual synonyms

Both words in one sentence

  • Your average radio/TV drama series — when not a soap, generally a detective or other 'mystery play' — would seem crude to the point of absurdity today; most of the ancient cliches were by no means yet into Discredited Trope territory.
  • Although amusingly enough, the so-called Gothic architecture developed during the Middle Ages was technologically more advanced than anything done in the ancient Rome, but the Renaissance people thought it was crude and barbaric because it diverted from the Roman aesthetics.
    Source: Modern Stasis
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