## Meanings
1. Not polite; behaving in a way that upsets or offends other people.
2. Connected with sex or the body in a way some people find offensive.
3. Sudden and unpleasant.

## Examples
- It's rude to talk with your mouth full.
- The children laughed at the rude joke.
- Losing his job was a rude awakening.

## Synonyms
- blue
- crude
- impolite
- obscene
- pornographic
- uncouth

## Derived Forms
- overrude
- rudeboy
- rudefem
- rudeful
- rudeling
- rudely
- rudeness
- rudery
- rudesby
- rudesome
- rudish
- rudity

## Related Forms
- erudite
- erudition
- rudiment
- rudimentary

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: rude
- Root: rudis

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

## AI Etymology
Rude comes from Middle English rude, from Old French rude, ruide, from Latin rudis (“rough, raw, rude, wild, untilled”). Modern senses include not polite; behaving in a way that upsets or offends other people. and connected with sex or the body in a way some people find offensive.. The wider word family includes derivatives such as overrude, rudeboy, rudefem, rudeful, rudeling, and rudely and related forms such as erudite, erudition, rudiment, and rudimentary.

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- Describing People

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