rude
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English
Etymology
From Middle English rude, from Old French rude, ruide, from Latin rudis (“rough, raw, rude, wild, untilled”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, Canada) IPA(key): /ɹuːd/, /ɹɪʊ̯d/ enPR: ro͞od, rūd
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɹud/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ɹʉːd/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -uːd
- Homophones: rood, rued
Adjective
rude (comparative ruder, superlative rudest)
- Lacking in refinement or civility; bad-mannered; discourteous.
- This girl was so rude towards the cashier by screaming at him for no apparent reason.
- Karen broke up with Fred because he was often rude to her.
- c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :
- Art thou thus bolden'd, man, by thy distress?
Or else a rude despiser of good manners,
That in civility thou seem'st so empty?
- 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 6, in Middlemarch , volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book (please specify |book=I to VIII):
- [S]he was rude to Sir James sometimes; but he is so kind, he never noticed it.
- Lacking refinement or skill; untaught; ignorant; raw.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, 2 Corinthians 11:6:
- But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge
- 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:
- Though not as shee with Bow and Quiver armd,
But with such Gardning Tools as Are yet rude,
Guiltless of fire had formd, or Angels brought […]
- 1767, Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil Society:
- It might be apprehended, that among rude nations, where the means of subsistence are procured with so much difficulty, the mind could never raise itself above the consideration of this subject
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- She had one of the caves fitted up as a laboratory, and, although her appliances were necessarily rude, the results that she attained were, as will become clear in the course of this narrative, sufficiently surprising.
- 1919, Rudyard Kipling, The Conundrum of the Workshops:
- When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden's green and gold,
Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mould;
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart,
Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves, "It's pretty, but is it Art?"
- 1983 [1981], John Crowley, “The Fairies' Parliment”, in Little, Big, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 583:
- There was a rude bridge there, much fallen, where floating branches caught and white water swirled; […]
- Violent; abrupt; turbulent.
- a rude awakening
- 1577, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 9:
- The Air attrite to Fire, as late the Clouds
Justling or pusht with Winds rude in thir shock
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, , →OCLC, Canto IX:
- All night no ruder air perplex
Thy sliding keel, till Phosphor, bright
As our pure love, thro’ early light
Shall glimmer on the dewy decks.
- Somewhat obscene, pornographic, offensive.
- a rude film
- rude language
- Undeveloped, unskilled, inelegant.
- Hearty, vigorous; found particularly in the phrase rude health.
- 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden Pond:
- A comfortable house for a rude and hardy race, that lived mostly out of doors, was once made here almost entirely of such materials as Nature furnished ready to their hands.
- Crudely made; primitive.
- 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 1, in Lolita:
- For a while, purple-robed, heel-dangling, I sat on the edge of one of the rude tables, under the wooshing pines.
Synonyms
- (bad-mannered): ill-mannered, uncouth; see Thesaurus:impolite
- (obscene, pornographic, offensive): adult, blue; see also Thesaurus:obscene or Thesaurus:pornographic
- (undeveloped): primitive; see Thesaurus:crude
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
bad-mannered
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obscene, pornographic, offensive
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tough, robust
undeveloped, unskilled, basic
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Further reading
- “rude”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “rude”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “rude”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
rude m or f (masculine and feminine plural rudes)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “rude” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Danish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Low German rūte, from Old High German rūta (German Raute (“rhomb”)), probably from Latin rūta (“rue”).
Noun
rude c (singular definite ruden, plural indefinite ruder)
Inflection
Declension of rude
Etymology 2
From late Old Norse rúta, from Middle Low German rūde, from Latin rūta (“rue”).
Noun
rude c (singular definite ruden, plural indefinite ruder)
Inflection
Declension of rude
See also
- ruder
rude on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da- Rude-familien on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French rude, a borrowing from Latin rudis (“unwrought”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
rude (plural rudes)
- rough, harsh
- March 28 1757, Robert-François Damiens, facing a horrific execution
- "La journée sera rude." ("The day will be rough.")
- March 28 1757, Robert-François Damiens, facing a horrific execution
- tough, hard; severe
- bitter, harsh, sharp (of weather)
- crude, unpolished
- hardy, tough, rugged
- (informal) formidable, fearsome
Derived terms
Further reading
- “rude”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Anagrams
Friulian
Etymology
From Latin rūta, from Ancient Greek ῥυτή (rhutḗ).
Noun
rude f (plural rudis)
Galician
Etymology
From Latin rudis, rudem.
Adjective
rude
References
- “rude” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
Italian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
rude (invariable)
Derived terms
Anagrams
Latin
Adjective
rude
References
- rude in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Middle English
Verb
rude
- Alternative form of rudden
Norman
Etymology
Adjective
rude m or f
Derived terms
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *rūtā (“rue”).
Pronunciation
Noun
rūde f
Declension
Declension of rude (weak)
Polish
Pronunciation
Adjective
rude
- inflection of rudy:
Portuguese
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
rude m or f (plural rudes)
- rude; bad-mannered
- Synonyms: brusco, grosseiro, mal-educado
Romanian
Noun
rude f pl
Serbo-Croatian
Adjective
rude
- inflection of rud:
Noun
rude (Cyrillic spelling руде)
- inflection of ruda:
Slovak
Noun
rude
Venetian
Noun
rude