definition of the word rude

• enPR: ro͞od, IPA: /ruːd/, SAMPA: /ru:d/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}

• Rhymes: -uːd

rude (comparative ruder, superlative rudest)

1. Bad mannered.
2. Obscene, pornographic, offensive.
3. Tough, robust.
4. Undeveloped, unskilled, basic.
   • year?, Corinthians 11:6, which? version of the Bible

     But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge

   • year?, 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?"

• See also Wikisaurus:impolite

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