rude
adjective
1.
2.
(of persons) lacking in refinement or grace
3.
4.
(used especially of commodities) in the natural unprocessed condition
- “natural yogurt”
- “natural produce”
- “raw wool”
- “raw sugar”
- “bales of rude cotton”
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”
Origin
From Middle English rude, from Old French rude, ruide, from Latin rudis (“rough, raw, rude, wild, untilled”).
Phrases
- rude awakening
- rude boy
- rude word
Related words
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