 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
rude
adjective
1: socially incorrect in behavior; "resentment flared at such
an unmannered intrusion" [syn: {ill-mannered}, {unmannered},
{unmannerly}]
2: (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace [syn: {ill-bred},
{bounderish}, {lowbred}, {underbred}, {yokelish}]
3: lacking civility or good manners; "want nothing from you but
to get away from your uncivil tongue"- Willa Cather [syn:
{uncivil}] [ant: {civil}]
4: (used especially of commodities) in the natural unprocessed
condition; "natural yogurt"; "natural produce"; "raw
wool"; "raw sugar"; "bales of rude cotton" [syn: {natural},
{raw(a)}, {rude(a)}]
5: 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" [syn: {crude}, {primitive}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rude \Rude\, adjective [Compar. {Ruder}; superl. {Rudest}.] [F., fr. L.
rudis.]
1. Characterized by roughness; umpolished; raw; lacking
delicacy or refinement; coarse.
Such gardening tools as art, yet rude, . . . had
formed. --Milton.
2. Hence, specifically:
(a) Unformed by taste or skill; not nicely finished; not
smoothed or polished; -- said especially of material
things; as, rude workmanship. ''Rude was the cloth.''
--Chaucer.
Rude and unpolished stones. --Bp.
Stillingfleet.
The heaven-born child
All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.
--Milton.
(b) Of untaught manners; unpolished; of low rank; uncivil;
clownish; ignorant; raw; unskillful; -- said of
persons, or of conduct, skill, and the like. ''Mine
ancestors were rude.'' --Chaucer.
He was but rude in the profession of arms. --Sir
H. Wotton.
the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
--Gray.
(c) Violent; tumultuous; boisterous; inclement; harsh;
severe; -- said of the weather, of storms, and the
like; as, the rude winter.
[Clouds] pushed with winds, rude in their shock.
--Milton.
The rude agitation [of water] breaks it into
foam. --Boyle.
(d) Barbarous; fierce; bloody; impetuous; -- said of war,
conflict, and the like; as, the rude shock of armies.
(e) 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. ''The rude
Irish books.'' --Spenser.
Rude am I in my speech. --Shak.
Unblemished by my rude translation. --Dryden.
Syn: Impertinent; rough; uneven; shapeless; unfashioned;
rugged; artless; unpolished; uncouth; inelegant; rustic;
coarse; vulgar; clownish; raw; unskillful; untaught;
illiterate; ignorant; uncivil; impolite; saucy;
impudent; insolent; surly; currish; churlish; brutal;
uncivilized; barbarous; savage; violent; fierce;
tumultuous; turbulent; impetuous; boisterous; harsh;
inclement; severe. See {Impertiment}.
-- {Rude"ly}, adverb -- {Rude"ness}, noun
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
289 Moby Thesaurus words for "rude":
Doric, Gothic, Philistine, angular, approximate, arrested, artless,
awkward, backward, barbaric, barbarous, bare, baseborn, basic,
bawdy, below the salt, benighted, biggety, bluff, bold, bookless,
boorish, bouncing, brash, brassy, brazen, brusque, bumbling,
cacophonic, cacophonous, callow, cheeky, choked, churlish,
chutzpadik, clownish, clumsy, coarse, cockney, cocky, common,
commonplace, contemptuous, crabbed, cracked, crass, croaking,
croaky, crude, crusty, curt, deceived, derisive, dirty, discordant,
discourteous, disharmonic, disharmonious, disrespectful, doggerel,
dry, dysphemistic, earthy, embryonic, empty-headed, facy, filthy,
flip, flippant, flush, fresh, functionally illiterate, gally,
gauche, gaudy, graceless, grammarless, gratuitous, green, gross,
gruff, guttural, hale, hale and hearty, hardy, harsh,
harsh-sounding, hearty, heathen, hoarse, homely, homespun,
hoodwinked, humble, husky, ill, ill-bred, ill-educated,
ill-mannered, illiterate, imperfect, impertinent, impolite,
imprecise, improper, impudent, impure, in bad taste, in embryo,
in ovo, in the rough, inaccurate, inaffable, inartistic,
inconcinnate, inconcinnous, incorrect, indecent, indecorous,
indelicate, inelegant, inexact, inexpert, infelicitous, inharmonic,
inharmonious, insolent, insulting, intrusive, inurbane,
know-nothing, led astray, lewd, loud, loutish, low, lowborn,
lowbred, lowbrow, lowly, lubricious, lubricous, lumpy, lusty,
makeshift, malapert, mannerless, mean, meddlesome, meretricious,
metallic, misinformed, misinstructed, misshapen, mistaught,
naughty, nervy, nonclerical, nonintellectual, oafish, obscene,
offensive, ordinary, outlandish, outrageous, oversimple, pagan,
pert, plain, plebeian, pornographic, primitive, proximate, ragged,
raucid, raucous, raw, reductionistic, reductive, ribald, robust,
robustious, robustuous, rough, rough-hewn, roughcast, roughhewn,
roupy, rudimental, rudimentary, rugged, sassy, saucy, savage,
shabby-genteel, simple, simplistic, smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass,
smutty, squawking, squawky, stalwart, stertorous, stout, strangled,
strong, stunted, sturdy, surly, taboo, tactless, tasteless, thick,
third-estate, throaty, tinny, unaccommodating, unblown, unbooked,
unbookish, unbooklearned, unbriefed, uncalled-for, unceremonious,
uncivil, uncivilized, uncomplaisant, unconversant, uncourteous,
uncourtly, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, uncut,
underdeveloped, undeveloped, undignified, undressed, unedified,
uneducated, unerudite, uneuphonious, unfashioned, unfelicitous,
unfinished, unformed, ungallant, ungenteel, ungentlemanly,
ungraceful, ungracious, unguided, unhandsome, unharmonious, unhewn,
uninstructed, unintellectual, unlabored, unladylike, unlearned,
unlettered, unlicked, unliterary, unmannered, unmannerly,
unpolished, unpolite, unpracticed, unprocessed, unread, unrefined,
unscholarly, unschooled, unseemly, unskilled, unstudious, untaught,
untreated, untutored, unversed, unworked, unwrought, vigorous,
vital, vulgar, wild, wise-ass
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
rude [WPI] adjective
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. Compare
{all-elbows}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
rude
[WPI]
1. Badly written or functionally poor, e.g. a program
that is very difficult to use because of gratuitously poor
design decisions. Opposite: {cuspy}.
2. 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. Compare
{all-elbows}.
[{Jargon File}]
(1994-10-27)
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