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 Definitions of rude  [rud]  

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Definition of 'rude' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (adj.) rude
discourteous or impolite, esp. deliberately so:
a rude reply.

2.  rude
without culture, learning, or refinement.

3.  rude
rough in manners or behavior; uncouth.

4.  rude
rough, harsh, or ungentle:
a rude shock.

5.  rude
roughly built or made; crude:
a rude cottage.

6.  rude
harsh to the ear:
rude sounds.

7.  rude
lacking elegance; of a primitive simplicity:
a rude design.

8.  rude
robust, sturdy, or vigorous.

Etymology:  (1300–50; ME rude, ruide (< OF) < L rudis)

Definition of 'rude' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (adj) ill-mannered, bad-mannered, rude, unmannered, unmannerly
socially incorrect in behavior
"resentment flared at such an unmannered intrusion"

2. (adj) ill-bred, bounderish, lowbred, rude, underbred, yokelish
(of persons) lacking in refinement or grace

3. (adj) uncivil, rude
lacking civility or good manners
"want nothing from you but to get away from your uncivil tongue"- Willa Cather

4. (adj) natural, raw(a), rude(a)
(used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes
"natural yogurt"; "natural produce"; "raw wool"; "raw sugar"; "bales of rude cotton"

5. (adj) crude, primitive, rude
belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness
"the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains"


Definition of 'rude' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (adjective) rude
not polite
rude behavior/comments; It's rude not to say "thank you."; He rudely ignored everything she said.; a woman who is known for her rudeness


Definition of 'rude' Webster Dictionary 

1.  rude
characterized by roughness; umpolished; raw; lacking delicacy or refinement; coarse

2.  rude
unformed by taste or skill; not nicely finished; not smoothed or polished; -- said especially of material things; as, rude workmanship

3.  rude
of untaught manners; unpolished; of low rank; uncivil; clownish; ignorant; raw; unskillful; -- said of persons, or of conduct, skill, and the like

4.  rude
violent; tumultuous; boisterous; inclement; harsh; severe; -- said of the weather, of storms, and the like; as, the rude winter

5.  rude
barbarous; fierce; bloody; impetuous; -- said of war, conflict, and the like; as, the rude shock of armies

6.  rude
not finished or complete; inelegant; lacking chasteness or elegance; not in good taste; unsatisfactory in mode of treatment; -- said of literature, language, style, and the like


Definitions of 'rude' The New Hacker's Dictionary 

1.  rude
1. (of a program) Badly written.

2. Functionally poor, e.g., a program that is very difficult to use because of gratuitously poor (random?) design decisions. Oppose cuspy.

3. Anything that manipulates a shared resource without regard for its other users in such a way as to cause a (non-fatal) problem. Examples: programs that change tty modes without resetting them on exit, or windowing programs that keep forcing themselves to the top of the window stack.


Translation of 'rude' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: not polite; showing bad manners
rude behaviour.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: onbeskof Arabic flag Arabic: غَيْر مُهَذَّب ، وَقِح، ف Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: груб
Brazilian flag Brazilian: grosseiro Czech flag Czech: hrubý German flag German: grob
Danish flag Danish: grov Greek flag Greek: αγενής, απότομος Spanish flag Spanish: grosero; maleducado
Estonian flag Estonian: ebaviisakas Farsi flag Farsi: بی ادب؛ پر رو Finnish flag Finnish: töykeä
French flag French: grossier, malélevé Hebrew flag Hebrew: חָצוּף Hindi flag Hindi: अशिष्ट
Croatian flag Croatian: priprost Hungarian flag Hungarian: nyers Indonesian flag Indonesian: kasar
Icelandic flag Icelandic: ruddalegur Italian flag Italian: sgarbato, rozzo Japanese flag Japanese: 無作法な
Korean flag Korean: 버릇없는 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: šiurkštus Latvian flag Latvian: rupjš; nepieklājīgs
Malay flag Malay: biadab Dutch flag Dutch: onbeleefd Norwegian flag Norwegian: uhøflig, uforskammet
Polish flag Polish: grubiański Persian flag Persian: بی ادب؛ پر رو Pashto flag Pashto: بی ادب
Portuguese flag Portuguese: grosseiro Romanian flag Romanian: grosolan, prost crescut Russian flag Russian: грубый; невоспитанный
Slovak flag Slovak: hrubý Slovenian flag Slovenian: grob Serbian flag Serbian: nepristojan
Swedish flag Swedish: ohövlig, ohyfsad Thai flag Thai: หยาบคาย Turkish flag Turkish: kaba, saygısız
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 無禮的,粗野的 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: грубий Urdu flag Urdu: غیر مہذب
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: thô lỗ Chinese flag Chinese: 粗野的

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