rude
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English rude, from Old French rude, ruide, from Latin rudis (“rough, raw, rude, wild, untilled”).
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɹuːd/, /ɹɪʊ̯d/ enPR: ro͞od
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɹud/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ɹʉːd/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -uːd
- Homophones: rood, rued
AdjectiveEdit
rude (comparative ruder, superlative rudest)
- 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?
- 1871-72, George Eliot, Middlemarch, ch 6:
- [S]he was rude to Sir James sometimes; but he is so kind, he never noticed it.
- 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], […], →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], Crowley, John, “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; […]
- 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
- Somewhat obscene, pornographic, offensive.
- a rude film
- rude language
- Undeveloped, unskilled, inelegant.
- Hearty, vigorous; found particularly in the phrase rude health.
- 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden Pond, Economy:
- 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.
- 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden Pond, Economy:
- Crudely made; primitive.
- 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Chapter 1
- For a while, purple-robed, heel-dangling, I sat on the edge of one of the rude tables, under the wooshing pines.
- 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Chapter 1
SynonymsEdit
- (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
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Further readingEdit
- rude in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- rude in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- rude at OneLook Dictionary Search
AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
rude (masculine and feminine plural rudes)
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “rude” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
DanishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle Low German rūte, from Old High German rūta (German Raute (“rhomb”)), probably from Latin rūta (“rue”).
NounEdit
rude c (singular definite ruden, plural indefinite ruder)
InflectionEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From late Old Norse rúta, from Middle Low German rūde, from Latin rūta (“rue”).
NounEdit
rude c (singular definite ruden, plural indefinite ruder)
InflectionEdit
See alsoEdit
- ruder
- rude on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
- Rude-familien on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French rude, a borrowing from Latin rudis (“unwrought”).
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
rude (plural rudes)
- rough, harsh
- March 28 1757, Robert-François Damiens, facing a horrific execution
- "La journée sera rude." ("The day will be rough.")
- March 28 1757, Robert-François Damiens, facing a horrific execution
- tough, hard; severe
- bitter, harsh, sharp (of weather)
- crude, unpolished
- hardy, tough, rugged
- (informal) formidable, fearsome
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “rude”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
AnagramsEdit
FriulianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin rūta, from Ancient Greek ῥυτή (rhutḗ).
NounEdit
rude f (plural rudis)
GalicianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin rudis, rudem.
AdjectiveEdit
rude
ReferencesEdit
- “rude” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
rude (invariable)
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AnagramsEdit
LatinEdit
AdjectiveEdit
rude
ReferencesEdit
- 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)
Middle EnglishEdit
VerbEdit
rude
- Alternative form of rudden
NormanEdit
EtymologyEdit
AdjectiveEdit
rude m or f
Derived termsEdit
PolishEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
rude
- inflection of rudy:
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
rude m or f (plural rudes)
- rude; bad-mannered
- Synonyms: brusco, grosseiro, mal-educado
RomanianEdit
NounEdit
rude f pl
Serbo-CroatianEdit
AdjectiveEdit
rude
- inflection of rud:
NounEdit
rude (Cyrillic spelling руде)
- inflection of ruda:
SlovakEdit
NounEdit
rude
VenetianEdit
NounEdit
rude