rude

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹuːd/, /ɹɪʊ̯d/ enPR: ro͞od
• (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. Bad-mannered.

   This girl was so rude towards her boyfriend by screaming at him for no apparent reason.

   Karen broke up with Fred because he was often rude to her.

2. Somewhat obscene, pornographic, offensive.
3. Tough, robust.
4. Undeveloped, unskilled, basic.
   • 2 Corinthians 11:6 (KVJ)

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

   • (Can we date this quote?), 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?"

   • 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

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

• (bad-mannered): see Thesaurus:impolite

• rudish
• rudely
• rudeness

• 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

• Duer, dure, rued, urdé, ured

From Latin rudis.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈru.də/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈru.de/

rude (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]

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

Borrowed from Latin rudis.

• IPA^(key): /ʁyd/

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rude (plural rudes)

1. rough, harsh
2. tough, hard; severe
3. crude, unpolished
4. hardy, tough, rugged
5. (informal) formidable, fearsome

• rudement

• “rude” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• dure, duré, redû

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

rude f (plural rudis)

1. rue (Ruta graveolens)

From Latin rudis, rudem.

rude (invariable)

1. tough
2. rough, coarse

• dure

rude

1. nominative neuter singular of rudis
2. accusative neuter singular of rudis
3. vocative neuter singular of rudis

• rude in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

From Latin rudis.

rude m or f

1. (Jersey) rough

• rudement

• IPA^(key): /ˈru.dɛ/
• Homophone: rudę

rude

1. inflection of rudy:
   1. neuter nominative singular
   2. neuter accusative singular
   3. neuter vocative singular
   4. nonvirile nominative plural
   5. nonvirile accusative plural
   6. nonvirile vocative plural

From Latin rudis

• Rhymes: -udʒi

rude m or f (plural rudes, comparable)

1. rude; bad-mannered

• brusco, grosseiro, mal-educado

rude

1. plural of ruda