ruvidadj.

Brit.

/ˈruːvɪd/, U.S.

/ˈruvɪd/

Origin: A borrowing from Italian. Etymon: Italian ruvido.

Etymology: < Italian ruvido rough, uneven, rugged (13th cent.), uncivilized, ill-mannered (a1348), probably < classical Latin or post-classical Latin rugidus creased, wrinkly (in an isolated undated inscription on a terracotta vessel found in Sarajevo, Bosnia, as rugetus (see further Zeitschr. f. roman. Philologie (1898) 22 532); < rūga wrinkle (see ruga n.) + -idus -id suffix¹).

literary.

1. Uncivilized, barbarous. rare.

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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > lack of civilization > [adjective]

wilda1300

bestiala1398

wilderna1400

savagine?a1439

barbaric1490

rudea1530

barbar1535

barbarous1538

pagan1550

uncivil1553

Scythical1559

raw?1573

savaged1583

incivil1586

savage1589

barbarian1591

uncivilized1607

negerous1609

mountainous1613

ruvid1632

ruvidous1632

barbarious1633

incivilizeda1645

alabandical1656

inhumanea1680

tramontane1740

semi-barbarous1798

irreclaimed1814

semi-savage1833

semiferine1854

warrigal1855

sloven1856

semi-barbaric1864

pre-civilized1876

wild and woolly1884

jungle1908

medieval1917

jungli1920

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vi. 291 The ruvid Cittizens, being Turkes, Moores, Iewes,..and Nostranes.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vi. 296 Their food also [is] semblable, to their ruvid condition.

1965 Film Q. Summer 43/1 All this gross, ruvid, physically violent material.

2. Rough, uneven, rugged.

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the world > space > shape > unevenness > [adjective] > rough

unsmeetheOE

sharpc893

rowOE

reofOE

roughOE

unplaina1393

harsha1400

scrofc1400

stourc1400

ruggyc1405

asperous1547

harshy1582

shagged1589

horrid1590

unsmooth1598

gross1606

asperate1623

brute1627

scabbed1630

sleazy1644

rasping1656

scaber1657

asper1681

shaggy1693

gruff1697

grating1766

hackly1794

ruvid1837

scrubby1856

unkind1866

raspy1882

ruckly1923

sandpapery1957

1837 A. B. Granville Spas Germany I. 322 On passing my hand all over the body..it felt ruvid, and the two surfaces seemed to meet with resistance.

1920 P. MacGill Maureen (ed. 2) x. vii. 358 He lathered his face with his hands, soaping cheeks and jaw, and watching in the little glass..the soap foam thicken and overspread the razor-ground of his ruvid features.

1964 Antioch Rev. 24 117 And I have known this urge over and over again—in every block of marble within whose bland or ruvid surfaces I seem to see the figures contained..waiting for the liberating hand.

1996 A. Theroux Secondary Colors 75 When Wallace Stevens wrote ‘Florida, venereal soil’, wasn't he invoking a soil that was orange-red as much as it was ruvid?

Derivatives

† ruvidous adj. Obsolete rare

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