rude

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   belonging to an early stage of technical development

   characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness

2. 2
   adj

   lacking in refinement or grace

   We felt rude and uncultured compared to our neighbors.

3. 3
   adj

   Lacking in refinement or civility; bad-mannered; discourteous.

   This girl was so rude towards the cashier by screaming at him for no apparent reason.

4. 4
   adj

   Lacking refinement or skill; untaught; ignorant; raw.

   But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge

5. 5
   adj

   Violent; abrupt; turbulent.

   a rude awakening

6. 6
   adj

   Somewhat obscene, pornographic, offensive.

   a rude film

7. 7
   adj

   Hearty, vigorous; found particularly in the phrase rude health.

   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.

8. 8
   adj

   Crudely made; primitive.

   For a while, purple-robed, heel-dangling, I sat on the edge of one of the rude tables, under the wooshing pines.

Etymology

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