Definitions for: Rude

[adj] socially incorrect in behavior; "resentment flared at such an unmannered intrusion"
[adj] lacking civility or good manners; "want nothing from you but to get away from your uncivil tongue"- Willa Cather
[adj] 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"
[adj] (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace

Webster (1913) Definition: Rude, a. [Compar. Ruder; superl. Rudest.] [F., fr. L.
rudis.]
1. Characterized by roughness; umpolished; raw; lacking
delicacy or refinement; coarse.

Such gardening tools as art, yet rude, . . . had
formed. --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.''
--Chaucer.

Rude and unpolished stones. --Bp.
Stillingfleet.

The heaven-born child All meanly wrapt in the
rude manger lies. --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.''

Synonyms: bounderish, crude, early, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, lowbred, primitive, uncivil, underbred, unmannered, unmannerly, unrefined, yokelish

Antonyms: civil, polite

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