rude /rood/ adjective- Uncultured
- Unskilled
- Discourteously unmannerly
- Vulgar
- Harsh
- Crude
- Undeveloped
- Unwrought
- Coarse
- Rugged
- Rough
- Roughly or unskilfully fashioned
- Violent
- (of health) robust
adverb (rare)Rudely noun (slang)A rude boy (see below) ORIGIN: L rudis rough rudeˈly adverb rudeˈness noun rudˈery noun (informal) rudesby /roodzˈbi/ noun (Shakespeare) An uncivil person rudˈie noun (slang) A rude boy (see below) rudˈish adjective rude boy noun (orig in Jamaica) a member of a youth movement wearing smart clothes |