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English
Etymology
From Middle English rude, from Old French rude, ruide, from Latin rudis (“rough, raw, rude, wild, untilled”).
Pronunciation
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.
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?"
- 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.
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Translations
bad-mannered
- Albanian: i pasjellshëm (sq)
- American Sign Language: Open8@Palm-PalmDown-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp Open8@InsideChesthigh-PalmDown-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp
- Arabic: غَيْر مُهَذِّب (ḡayr muhaḏḏib)
- Egyptian Arabic: غليز (ḡalīz)
- Armenian: կոպիտ (hy) (kopit)
- Belarusian: гру́бы (hrúby)
- Bulgarian: груб (bg) (grub), невъзпи́тан (bg) (nevǎzpítan)
- Catalan: rude (ca), bast (ca), malcarat
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 冇禮貌/冇礼貌 (mou5 lai5 maau6)
- Mandarin: 粗暴 (zh) (cūbào), 無禮/无礼 (zh) (wúlǐ)
- Czech: sprostý (cs), drzý (cs), hrubý (cs)
- Danish: uhøflig (da), uforskammet
- Dutch: grof (nl), onbeschoft (nl)
- Esperanto: malafabla
- Estonian: jäme
- Finnish: moukkamainen (fi), töykeä (fi), tyly (fi), karkea (fi), karkeatapainen, julkea (fi)
- French: impoli (fr), malpoli (fr)
- Galician: groseiro
- Georgian: უზრდელი (uzrdeli), უხეში (uxeši), უკმეხი (uḳmexi)
- German: grob (de), unhöflich (de), frech (de), unverschämt (de), garstig (de)
- Greek: αγενής (el) m (agenís)
- Hebrew: גַּס (he) (gas), גַּס רוּחַ (he) (gas rúaḥ)
- Hindi: ढीठ (hi) (ḍhīṭh), गुस्ताख़ (gustāx)
- Hungarian: durva (hu)
- Irish: mímhúinte, borb, míbhéasach, drochmhúinte, drochbhéasach
- Italian: rude (it), maleducato (it) m
- Japanese: 無礼な (ja) (ぶれいな, burei na), 失礼 (ja) (しつれい, shitsurei)
- Kalmyk: модьрун (modʹrun)
- Korean: 버릇없다 (ko) (beoreudeopda), 무례하다 (ko) (muryehada)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: importūnus m, inhūmānus m, insolens m or f
- Lithuanian: grubus
- Macedonian: груб (grub), нево́спитан (nevóspitan), др́зок (dŕzok)
- Malay: lucah
- Maori: āhuaatua, harehare
- Marathi: उद्धट (uddhaṭ), उर्मट (urmaṭ)
- Norman: apèrt (Jersey)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: uforskammet (no)
- Occitan: rude (oc)
- Ottoman Turkish: یوغون (yoğun)
- Pashto: شډل (ps) (šaḍal), بدمخی (ps) (badmëxay)
- Persian: بیادب (fa) (bi-adab), پررو (fa) (por-ru), گستاخ (fa) (gostâx)
- Plautdietsch: onheeflich
- Polish: nieuprzejmy (pl), chamski (pl), grubiański (pl)
- Portuguese: rude (pt), estúpido (pt), grosseiro (pt), grosso (pt)
- Romagnol: cafôn, vilân
- Romanian: nepoliticos (ro)
- Russian: гру́бый (ru) (grúbyj), неве́жливый (ru) (nevéžlivyj), де́рзкий (ru) (dérzkij), невоспи́танный (ru) (nevospítannyj)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: др̏зак, не̏присто̄јан
- Roman: dȑzak (sh), nȅpristōjan (sh)
- Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
- Slovak: hrubý, drzý
- Slovene: nesrámen (sl)
- Spanish: rudo (es), grosero (es), descortés (es), soez (es)
- Swahili: jeuri (sw)
- Swedish: ohövlig (sv), oförskämd (sv), fräck (sv)
- Tagalog: bastos
- Tamil: please add this translation if you can
- Telugu: మోటు (te) (mōṭu)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: kaba (tr), küstah (tr)
- Ukrainian: гру́бий (hrúbyj)
- Urdu: ڈھیٹھ (ḍhīṭh), بے اَدَب (be-adab), گُسْتاخ (gustāx)
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obscene, pornographic, offensive
- Bulgarian: неприли́чен (bg) m (neprilíčen), поква́рен (bg) (pokváren)
- Catalan: obscè (ca) m
- Czech: sprostý (cs)
- Danish: vulgær (da), sjofel, fræk, grov
- Estonian: rõve
- Finnish: rivo (fi), hävytön (fi), säädytön (fi)
- Greek: βρώμικος (el) (vrómikos)
- Hebrew: גַּס (he) m (gas), בּוֹטֶה (he) m (boté)
- Italian: oscena (it) f, offensivo (it) m
- Macedonian: непри́личен (nepríličen)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: grov (no)
- Polish: obsceniczny (pl), nieprzyzwoity (pl)
- Portuguese: vulgar (pt), obsceno (pt)
- Russian: неприли́чный (ru) (neprilíčnyj), по́шлый (ru) (póšlyj)
- Swahili: jeuri (sw)
- Tagalog: bastos
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undeveloped, unskilled, basic
- Bulgarian: прост (bg) (prost), суро́в (bg) (suróv), необрабо́тен (bg) (neobrabóten)
- Catalan: bast (ca) m
- Finnish: karkea (fi), kehittymätön (fi), taitamaton (fi), osaamaton (fi), alkeellinen (fi)
- Latin: rudis m or f, inconditus m
- Macedonian: прост (prost), су́ров (súrov), необра́ботен (neobráboten)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: rå (no)
- Portuguese: rudimentar (pt)
- Russian: неотёсанный (neotjósannyj) (uncouth, of a person), сыро́й (ru) (syrój) (e.g. a sketch)
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Translations to be checked
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
Borrowed from Latin rudis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
rude m or f (masculine and feminine plural rudes)
- uncultured, rough
Derived terms
Further reading
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)
- pane
- window
- square
- lozenge, diamond
Inflection
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)
- (botany) rue (various perennial shrubs of the genus Ruta)
Inflection
See also
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.")
- tough, hard; severe
- bitter, harsh, sharp (of weather)
- crude, unpolished
- hardy, tough, rugged
- (informal) formidable, fearsome
Derived terms
Further reading
Anagrams
Friulian
Etymology
From Latin rūta, from Ancient Greek ῥυτή (rhutḗ).
Noun
rude f (plural rudis)
- rue, common rue (Ruta graveolens)
Galician
Etymology
From Latin rudis, rudem.
Adjective
rude
- tough
- rough, coarse
References
- “rude” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
Italian
Etymology
From Latin rudis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈru.de/
- Rhymes: -ude
- Hyphenation: rù‧de
Adjective
rude (invariable)
- tough
- rough, coarse
Derived terms
Anagrams
Latin
Adjective
rude
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of rudis
References
Middle English
Verb
rude
- Alternative form of rudden
Norman
Etymology
From Latin rudis.
Adjective
rude m or f
- (Jersey) rough
Derived terms
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *rūtā (“rue”).
Pronunciation
Noun
rūde f
- rue (plants in the genus Ruta)
Declension
Declension of rude (weak)
Polish
Pronunciation
Adjective
rude
- inflection of rudy:
- neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
- nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin rudis.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: (Brazil) -ud͡ʒi, (Portugal) -udɨ
- Hyphenation: ru‧de
Adjective
rude m or f (plural rudes)
- rude; bad-mannered
- Synonyms: brusco, grosseiro, mal-educado
Romanian
Noun
rude f pl
- plural of rudă
Serbo-Croatian
Adjective
rude
- inflection of rud:
- masculine accusative plural
- feminine genitive singular
- feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural
Noun
rude (Cyrillic spelling руде)
- inflection of ruda:
- genitive singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural
Slovak
Noun
rude
- dative/locative singular of ruda
Venetian
Noun
rude
- plural of ruda