rude

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See also: Rude, rudé, rudě, rudę, rüde, and Rüde

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

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rude (comparative ruder, superlative rudest)

  1. 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?
    • 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 6, in Middlemarch […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book (please specify |book=I to VIII):
      [S]he was rude to Sir James sometimes; but he is so kind, he never noticed it.
  2. 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 I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →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], John Crowley, “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; […]
  3. 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
    • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto IX:
      All night no ruder air perplex
      ⁠Thy sliding keel, till Phosphor, bright
      ⁠As our pure love, thro’ early light
      Shall glimmer on the dewy decks.
  4. Somewhat obscene, pornographic, offensive.
    a rude film
    rude language
  5. Undeveloped, unskilled, inelegant.
  6. Hearty, vigorous; found particularly in the phrase rude health.
    • 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden Pond:
      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.
  7. Crudely made; primitive.
    • 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 1, in Lolita:
      For a while, purple-robed, heel-dangling, I sat on the edge of one of the rude tables, under the wooshing pines.

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Catalan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin rudis.

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Adjective[edit]

rude m or f (masculine and feminine plural rudes)

  1. uncultured, rough

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Danish[edit]

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Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle Low German rūte, from Old High German rūta (German Raute (“rhomb”)), probably from Latin rūta (“rue”).

Noun[edit]

rude c (singular definite ruden, plural indefinite ruder)

  1. pane
  2. window
  3. square
  4. lozenge, diamond
Inflection[edit]
Declension of rude
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative rude ruden ruder ruderne
genitive rudes rudens ruders rudernes

Etymology 2[edit]

From late Old Norse rúta, from Middle Low German rūde, from Latin rūta (“rue”).

Noun[edit]

rude c (singular definite ruden, plural indefinite ruder)

  1. (botany) rue (various perennial shrubs of the genus Ruta)
Inflection[edit]
Declension of rude
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative rude ruden ruder ruderne
genitive rudes rudens ruders rudernes

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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old French rude, a borrowing from Latin rudis (“unwrought”).

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Adjective[edit]

rude (plural rudes)

  1. rough, harsh
    • March 28 1757, Robert-François Damiens, facing a horrific execution
      "La journée sera rude." ("The day will be rough.")
  2. tough, hard; severe
  3. bitter, harsh, sharp (of weather)
  4. crude, unpolished
  5. hardy, tough, rugged
  6. (informal) formidable, fearsome

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Friulian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

rude f (plural rudis)

  1. rue, common rue (Ruta graveolens)

Galician[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin rudis, rudem.

Adjective[edit]

rude

  1. tough
  2. rough, coarse

References[edit]

  • “rude” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.

Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin rudis.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈru.de/
  • Rhymes: -ude
  • Hyphenation: rù‧de

Adjective[edit]

rude (invariable)

  1. tough
  2. rough, coarse

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Latin[edit]

Adjective[edit]

rude

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of rudis

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Middle English[edit]

Verb[edit]

rude

  1. Alternative form of rudden

Norman[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin rudis.

Adjective[edit]

rude m or f

  1. (Jersey) rough

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Old English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-West Germanic *rūtā (“rue”).

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Noun[edit]

rūde f

  1. rue (plants in the genus Ruta)

Declension[edit]

Declension of rude (weak)
Case Singular Plural
nominative rūde rūdan
accusative rūdan rūdan
genitive rūdan rūdena
dative rūdan rūdum

Polish[edit]

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rude

  1. inflection of rudy:
    1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
    2. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Portuguese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin rudis.

Pronunciation[edit]

 

Adjective[edit]

rude m or f (plural rudes)

  1. rude; bad-mannered
    Synonyms: brusco, grosseiro, mal-educado

Romanian[edit]

Noun[edit]

rude f pl

  1. plural of rudă

Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Adjective[edit]

rude

  1. inflection of rud:
    1. masculine accusative plural
    2. feminine genitive singular
    3. feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Noun[edit]

rude (Cyrillic spelling руде)

  1. inflection of ruda:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Slovak[edit]

Noun[edit]

rude

  1. dative/locative singular of ruda

Venetian[edit]

Noun[edit]

rude

  1. plural of ruda
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