rude

From Middle English rude, from Old French rude, ruide, from Latin rudis (“rough, raw, rude, wild, untilled”).

• (UK, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɹuːd/, /ɹɪʊ̯d/ enPR: ro͞od, rūd
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹud/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɹʉːd/

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• Rhymes: -uːd
• Homophones: rood, rued

rude (comparative ruder, superlative rudest)

1. 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[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:

     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 […], volume (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.

2. 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], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →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; […]

3. 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.

4. Somewhat obscene, pornographic, offensive.

   a rude film

   rude language

5. Undeveloped, unskilled, inelegant.
6. 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.

7. 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.

• (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

• rude awakening
• rude boy
• rude word
• rudely
• rudeness
• rudesby
• rudish

• “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.

• Duer, dure, rued, urdé, ured

Borrowed from Latin rudis.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈru.ðə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈru.ðe]

rude m or f (masculine and feminine plural rudes)

1. uncultured, rough

• rudement
• rudesa

• “rude” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• IPA^(key): /ruːdə/, [ˈʁuːðə]
• Rhymes: -uːðə

From Middle Low German rūte, from Old High German rūta (German Raute (“rhomb”)), probably from Latin rūta (“rue”).

rude c (singular definite ruden, plural indefinite ruder)

1. pane
2. window
3. square
4. lozenge, diamond

From late Old Norse rúta, from Middle Low German rūde, from Latin rūta (“rue”).

rude c (singular definite ruden, plural indefinite ruder)

1. (botany) rue (various perennial shrubs of the genus Ruta)

• ruder
•   rude on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da
•   Rude-familien on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Inherited from Old French rude, a borrowing from Latin rudis (“unwrought”).

• IPA^(key): /ʁyd/

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rude (plural rudes)

1. rough, harsh
   • March 28 1757, Robert-François Damiens, facing a horrific execution

     "La journée sera rude." ("The day will be rough.")

2. tough, hard; severe
3. bitter, harsh, sharp (of weather)
4. crude, unpolished
5. hardy, tough, rugged
6. (informal) formidable, fearsome

• esprit rude
• mettre à rude épreuve
• rudement

• “rude”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• dure, duré, redû

From Latin rūta, from Ancient Greek ῥυτή (rhutḗ).

rude f (plural rudis)

1. rue, common rue (Ruta graveolens)

From Latin rudis, rudem.

rude

1. tough
2. rough, coarse

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “rude”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

From Latin rudis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈru.de/
• Rhymes: -ude
• Hyphenation: rù‧de

rude (invariable)

1. tough
2. rough, coarse

• rudemente

• dure

rude

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of rudis

• 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)

rude

1. Alternative form of rudden

From Latin rudis.

rude m or f

1. (Jersey) rough

• rudement

From Proto-West Germanic *rūtā (“rue”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈruː.de/

rūde f

1. rue (plants in the genus Ruta)

Weak:

• IPA^(key): /ˈru.dɛ/
• Rhymes: -udɛ
• Syllabification: ru‧de
• Homophone: rudę

rude

1. inflection of rudy:
   1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
   2. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural

From Latin rudis.

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ud͡ʒi, (Portugal) -udɨ
• Hyphenation: ru‧de

rude m or f (plural rudes)

1. rude; bad-mannered

   Synonyms: brusco, grosseiro, mal-educado

rude f pl

1. plural of rudă

rude

1. inflection of rud:
   1. masculine accusative plural
   2. feminine genitive singular
   3. feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural

rude (Cyrillic spelling руде)

1. inflection of ruda:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

rude

1. dative/locative singular of ruda

rude

1. plural of ruda