rude

 
Pronunciation: /ruːd/

adjective

  • 1offensively impolite or bad-mannered: she had been rude to her boss he is a rude and arrogant bully
  • 2referring to a taboo subject such as sex in a way considered embarrassing or offensive: Graham giggled at every rude joke
  • 3 [attributive] having a startling abruptness: the war came as a very rude awakening
  • 4 [attributive] chiefly British vigorous or hearty: Isabel had always been in rude health
  • 5 dated roughly made or done; lacking sophistication: a rude coffin
  • archaic ignorant and uneducated: the new religion was first promulgated by rude men

Derivatives

rudely

adverb

rudery

noun

Origin:

Middle English (in rude (sense 5), also 'uncultured'): from Old French, from Latin rudis 'unwrought' (referring to handicraft), figuratively 'uncultivated'; related to rudus 'broken stone'