Meaning of RUDE
| Pronunciation: | | rood
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- [adj] socially incorrect in behavior; "resentment flared at such an unmannered intrusion"
- [adj] lacking civility or good manners; "want nothing from you but to get away from your uncivil tongue"- Willa Cather
- [adj] 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"
- [adj] (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace
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| | Synonyms: | | bounderish, crude, early, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, lowbred, primitive, uncivil, underbred, unmannered, unmannerly, unrefined, yokelish |
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| | Antonyms: | | civil, polite | | |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.''
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| | Definition: | | [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] |
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