rude
AdjectiveOpen English WordNet
Adjective (5)ruder, rudest
- socially incorrect in behavior“resentment flared at such an unmannered intrusion”Synonyms: ill-manneredbad-manneredunmanneredunmannerlyOpposite politeSimilar impolite
- (of persons) lacking in refinement or graceSynonyms: ill-bredbounderishlowbredunderbredyokelishOpposite refinedSimilar unrefined
- lacking civility or good manners“want nothing from you but to get away from your uncivil tongue — Willa Cather”Synonyms: uncivilOpposite civilRelates to civility
- (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes“natural yogurt”“natural produce”“raw wool”“raw sugar”“bales of rude cotton”Synonyms: naturalrawOpposite processedSimilar unprocessed
- belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness“the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man”“primitive movies of the 1890s”“primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains”Synonyms: crudeprimitiveOpposite lateSimilar early
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Translations
Adjective impolite, bad-mannered
- Spanish
- grosero
- French
- impoli
- German
- unhöflich
- Italian
- maleducato
- Portuguese
- rude
- Turkish
- kaba
- Russian
- гру́бый grúbyj
- Arabic
- فَظّ faẓẓ
- Chinese
- 无礼 wúlǐ
- Japanese
- 失礼 shitsurei
21 more languages
- Dutch
- grof
- Polish
- nieuprzejmy
- Swedish
- ohövlig
- Greek
- αγενής agenís
- Korean
- 버릇없다 beoreudeopda
- Vietnamese
- thô lỗ
- Hungarian
- durva
- Portuguese (PT)
- rude
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 粗暴 cūbào
- Catalan
- rude
- Czech
- sprostý
- Danish
- uhøflig
- Esperanto
- malĝentila
- Estonian
- jäme
- Finnish
- töykeä
- Georgian
- უზრდელი uzrdeli
- Hebrew
- גַּס gas
- Lithuanian
- grubus
- Romanian
- nepoliticos
- Slovak
- hrubý
- Swahili
- jeuri
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: F., fr. L. rudis.
1. Characterized by roughness; umpolished; raw; lacking delicacy or refinement; coarse.
Such gardening tools as art, yet rude,... had formed.— John Milton
2. Hence, specifically: (a) Unformed by taste or skill; not nicely finished; not smoothed or polished; — said especially of material things; as, rude workmanship. “Rude was the cloth.” Geoffrey Chaucer
Rude and unpolished stones.— Bp. Edward Stillingfleet
The heaven-born child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.— John Milton
(b) Of untaught manners; unpolished; of low rank; uncivil; clownish; ignorant; raw; unskillful; — said of persons, or of conduct, skill, and the like. “Mine ancestors were rude.” Geoffrey Chaucer
He was but rude in the profession of arms.— Sir Henry Wotton
the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.— Asa Gray
(c) Violent; tumultuous; boisterous; inclement; harsh; severe; — said of the weather, of storms, and the like; as, the rude winter.
[Clouds] pushed with winds, rude in their shock.— John Milton
The rude agitation [of water] breaks it into foam.— Robert Boyle
(d) Barbarous; fierce; bloody; impetuous; — said of war, conflict, and the like; as, the rude shock of armies. (e) Not finished or complete; inelegant; lacking chasteness or elegance; not in good taste; unsatisfactory in mode of treatment; — said of literature, language, style, and the like. “The rude Irish books.” Edmund Spenser
Rude am I in my speech.— William Shakespeare
Unblemished by my rude translation.— John Dryden
Synonyms: Impertinent; rough; uneven; shapeless; unfashioned; rugged; artless; unpolished; uncouth; inelegant; rustic; coarse; vulgar; clownish; raw; unskillful; untaught; illiterate; ignorant; uncivil; impolite; saucy; impudent; insolent; surly; currish; churlish; brutal; uncivilized; barbarous; savage; violent; fierce; tumultuous; turbulent; impetuous; boisterous; harsh; inclement; severe. See Impertiment.
— Rude′wb-a1′>′ly (#), adverb — Rude′wb-a1′>′ness, noun
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
[WPI] 1. Badly written or functionally poor, e.g. a program that is very difficult to use because of gratuitously poor design decisions. Opposite: cuspy.
2.Anything that manipulates a shared resource without regard for its other users in such a way as to cause a (non-fatal) problem. Examples: programs that change tty modes without resetting them on exit, or windowing programs that keep forcing themselves to the top of the window stack. Compare all-elbows. [Jargon File]
(1994-10-27)
The Jargon File
1.(of a program) Badly written.
2.Functionally poor, e.g., a program that is very difficult to use because of gratuitously poor (random?) design decisions. Oppose cuspy.
3.Anything that manipulates a shared resource without regard for its other users in such a way as to cause a (non-fatal) problem. Examples: programs that change tty modes without resetting them on exit, or windowing programs that keep forcing themselves to the top of the window stack.