Hypertext Webster Gateway: "rude"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Rude \Rude\, a. [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.''
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
rude
adj 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}]
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