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English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin impolītus. Equivalent to im- + polite.
Pronunciation
Adjective
impolite (comparative impoliter or more impolite, superlative impolitest or most impolite)
- Not polite; not of polished manners; wanting in good manners.
- Synonyms: discourteous, uncivil, rude, unpolite; see also Thesaurus:impolite
Derived terms
Translations
not polite
- Arabic: وَقِح (waqiḥ)
- Armenian: անքաղաքավարի (hy) (ankʿaġakʿavari)
- Azerbaijani: kobud (az), köntöy
- Bulgarian: неучтив (bg) (neučtiv)
- Catalan: groller (ca) m, descortès
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 不禮貌／不礼貌 (bù lǐmào)
- Czech: nezdvořilý (cs) m
- Estonian: ebaviisakas, kohatu (et)
- Finnish: epäkohtelias (fi)
- French: impoli (fr), malpoli (fr)
- German: unhöflich (de)
- Greek: αγενής (el) m (agenís)
- Hungarian: udvariatlan (hu)
- Icelandic: ókurteis (is)
- Irish: drochbhéasach
- Italian: scortese (it) m, maleducato (it) m, rude (it) m
- Japanese: 失礼な (ja) (しつれいな, shitsurei na), 無礼な (ja) (ぶれいな, burei na)
- Macedonian: не́учтив (néučtiv)
- Malayalam: മര്യാദയില്ലാത്ത (maryādayillātta)
- Manx: meechooyrtoil, neuellynagh, neuveasagh
- Maori: āhuaatua
- Norman: malpoli
- Norwegian: uhøflig (no)
- Pashto: شډل (ps) m (šaḍal), بدمخی (ps) m (badmëxay)
- Persian: بیادب (fa) (bi-adab)
- Plautdietsch: onheeflich
- Polish: nieuprzejmy (pl), grubiański (pl), chamski (pl)
- Portuguese: indelicado (pt), impolido m
- Russian: неве́жливый (ru) (nevéžlivyj)
- Spanish: maleducado (es), descortés (es)
- Swedish: oartig (sv)
- Ukrainian: нече́мний (nečémnyj), неґре́чний (negréčnyj), невві́чливий (nevvíčlyvyj), гру́бий (hrúbyj)
- Walloon: måpoli (wa) m, måhonteus (wa) m, ossu poli k' ene casrole di scroufier (wa) m
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Latin
Adjective
impolīte
- vocative masculine singular of impolītus
References
- “impolite”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “impolite”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- impolite in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.