impolite B2 Topic:Describing People US /ɪmpəˈlaɪt/ See IPA manual Freq #18319 Meanings 1 adj Not polite; rude or showing bad manners. It is impolite to interrupt people while they are speaking. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 adj · not polite; rude or showing... discourteousrudeill-mannered ↔ Opposites debonairpolitesuave Word family Forms impoliteness Etymology AI details Learned borrowing from Latin impolītus. Equivalent to im- + polite. impolītus Latin View etymology graph -> Topics Describing People External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # impolite **Type:** Word **Level:** B2 **Part of speech:** adj **IPA (US):** /ɪmpəˈlaɪt/ **Frequency rank:** 18319 ## Meanings 1. Not polite; rude or showing bad manners. ## Examples - It is impolite to interrupt people while they are speaking. ## Antonyms - debonair - polite - suave ## Roots and Affixes - Root: impolītus ## Etymology Learned borrowing from Latin impolītus. Equivalent to im- + polite. ## AI Etymology Impolite is a learned borrowing from Latin impolītus. Equivalent to im- + polite. The analysis is mainly morphological: the modern adjectival form is built from the named elements. In current use, the main sense is “Not polite; rude or showing bad manners”. ## Topics - Describing People markdown