Rude

Definition: Rude

Rude

Adjective

1. Socially incorrect in behavior; "resentment flared at such an unmannered intrusion".

2. (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace.

3. Lacking civility or good manners; "want nothing from you but to get away from your uncivil tongue"- Willa Cather.

4. (used especially of commodities) in the natural unprocessed condition; "natural yogurt"; "natural produce"; "raw wool"; "raw sugar"; "bales of rude cotton".

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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "rude" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Note: Rude \Rude\, adjective. [Comparative Ruder; superlative Rudest.]. (references)

Computing

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Rude

Amorphism

Adjective: shapeless, amorphous, formless; unformed, unhewn, unfashioned, unshaped, unshapen; rough, rude, Gothic, barbarous, rugged.

Commonalty

Rustic, uncivilized; loutish, boorish, clownish, churlish, brutish, raffish; rude, unlicked.

Discourtesy

Uncivil, ungracious, unceremonious; cool; pert, forward, obtrusive, impudent, rude, saucy, precocious.

Render rude; ad.; brutalize, brutify.

Disobedience

Phrase: seditiosissimus quisque ignavus; "unthread the rude eye of rebellion".

Disrespect

Adjective: disrespectful; aweless, irreverent; disparaging; insulting;Verb: supercilious, contemptuous, patronizing; (scornful); rude, derisive, sarcastic; scurrile, scurrilous; contumelious.

Health

Noun: health, sanity; soundness; Adjective: vigor; good health, perfect health, excellent health, rude health, robust health; bloom. mens sana in corpore sano; Hygeia; incorruption, incorruptibility; good state of health, clean bill of health; eupepsia; euphoria, euphory; St. Anthony's fire.

Ignorance

Shallow, superficial, green, rude, empty, half-learned, illiterate; unread, uninformed, uneducated, unlearned, unlettered, unbookish; empty-headed,dizzy, wooly-headed; pedantic;

Inelegance

Adjective: inelegant, graceless, ungraceful; harsh, abrupt; dry, stiff, cramped, formal, guinde; forced, labored; artificial, mannered, ponderous; awkward, uncourtly, unpolished; turgid; affected, euphuistic; barbarous, uncouth, grotesque, rude, crude, halting; offensive to ears polite.

Malediction

Abuse; foul language, bad language, strong language, unparliamentary language; billingsgate, sauce, evil speaking; cursing; Verb: profane swearing, oath; foul invective, ribaldry, rude reproach, scurrility.

Ugliness

Graceless, inelegant; ungraceful, ungainly, uncouth, stiff; rugged, rough, gross, rude, awkward, clumsy, slouching, rickety; gawky; lumping, lumpish; lumbering; hulky, hulking; unwieldy.

Violence

Adjective: violent, vehement; warm; acute, sharp; rough, rude, ungentle, bluff, boisterous, wild; brusque, abrupt, waspish; impetuous; rampant.

Vulgarity

Unkempt. uncombed, untamed, unlicked, unpolished, uncouth; plebeian; incondite; heavy, rude, awkward; homely, homespun, home bred; provincial, countrified, rustic; boorish, clownish; savage, brutish, blackguard, rowdy, snobbish; barbarous, barbaric; Gothic,

Crosswords: Rude

French (abrasive, abrupt, abusive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, bearish, biting, bleak, coarse, crude, hard, harsh, lurid, mannerless, rough, rude, rugged, set, sharp, unkind), Italian (brutal, coarse, gruff, harsh, rough, rude, rugged, sour, sullen, surly, tough, unkind, unpleasant), Portuguese (abrupt, backwoods, barbaric, boisterous, bumbling, caveman, cloddish, coarse, crude, discourteous, displeasing, disrespectful, gothic, gruff, harsh, homespun, husky, incondite, knockabout, larrikin, low-lived, point-blank, raw, rough, rude, rugged, rumbustious, rustic, snippy, tart, tough, unaffable, uncivil, uncouth, uneducated, ungracious, unkind, unnurtured, unpolished, untaught, upstage), Romanian (belongings, connection, folk, kin, kindred, kinsfolk, own, people).

I realize that when I met you at the turkey curry buffet, I was unforgivably rude, and wearing a reindeer jumper (Bridget Jones's Diary; writing credit: Helen Fielding)

Excuse me for being rude. It was not me, it was my food (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery; writing credit: Mike Myers)

Now really, it's rude enough being alive when no one wants you, but showing up uninvited to a wedding (Shrek; writing credit: Ted Elliott)

Oh, no. All that traffic and noise and pollution, and rude people (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro)

Whispering's rude! (Little House on the Prairie; writing credit: Arthur Heinemann; John Hawkins)

You get in a crowd of high class people and then you act real rude to me (Use Me; performing artist: Bill Withers)

Please excuse, if I come across rude (No Diggity; performing artist: Blackstreet)

Or 19 kinda snotty actin real rude (Ride Wit Me (Featuring City Spud); performing artist: Nelly)

I don’t want to be rude at all (Faded; performing artist: Soul Decision)

Not that I was tryin' to be rude (Daydreamin'; performing artist: Tatyana Ali)

Life lesson: A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. (references; author: unknown)

Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you; not because they are nice, but because you are. (references; author: unknown)

Rude Awakening (2002)

The Rude Intruder (1972)

A Rude Hostess (1909)

Rude Awakening (1908)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Doing Rude Things: History of the British Sex Film (reference)

• Mercy of a Rude Stream Volume 1- A Star Shines Over Mt. Morris (reference)

• Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People (reference)

• Rude Republic: Americans and Their Politics in the Nineteenth Century. (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Megadeth - Rude Awakening (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Too Rude (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Ballz: RUDE Survive (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A monstrous black hole's rude table manners include blowing huge bubbles of hot gas into ... Credit: NASA.

Pantropical spotted dolphin swimming ahead of the NOAA Ship RUDE Stenella attenuata. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals).

Dolphin in the bow wave of the NOAA Ship RUDE. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals).

Gilbert T. Rude As a young aid. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

NOAA Ship RUDE tied up at sunset at NOAA's Atlantic Marine Center in Norfolk. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Change of command on the NOAA Ship RUDE. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

A diagram of the "new"wiredrag system as operated off the NOAA Ships RUDE and HECK in 1986. Little change in design or concept had occurred between 1924 and 1986. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Rude awakening from a dream of conquest. Credit: Library of Congress.

The fading dream, or the rude awakening. Credit: Library of Congress.

Twelve-year old girl of family of nine, cooking meal in rude, open lean-to near hut, Tennessee. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1949)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Be rude to strangers

These, after exhausting other modes of amusement, now thronged about Hester Prynne with rude and boorish intrusiveness

His nurse had taught him Irish and shaped his rude imagination by the broken lights of Irish myth

Rude ragged nurse, old sullen playfellow For tender princes, use my babies well

Their buildings, although very rude and simple, are not inconvenient, but well contrived to defend them from all injuries of cold and heat

This man seemed to me to lean over the cornice, and timidly whisper his half truth to the rude occupants who really knew it better than he.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Do you have the mumps? No! People with mumps have a very different condition, even though both involve swelling of the sides of your face. Some people who ask questions are well-meaning, some are curious, and some are just plain rude. You don't have to answer if you don't want to. You can just ignore the question. (references)

Economic History

South Korea

Historically, Korea was a part of China's "tribute" system under which Korea maintained its independence but recognized China as a "cultural superior." Although the isolationist policies of the Yi court allowed the Choseon dynasty to maintain stability, the country fell behind international developments and subsequently was given a rude awakening to the new world order that existed in the latter half of the 19th century. (references)

Human Rights

Netherlands

In April both the judiciary and the public prosecutor introduced procedures whereby complaints can be filed for perceived impolite or rude treatment by either a judge or prosecutor. (references)

Travel

Uae

It is rude to refuse this beverage. (references)

Women

Malaysia

An April 1999 press report described complaints by NGO's and women's groups of rude and insensitive treatment by staff and officers of Islamic courts. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "rude": a rude awakening ♦ be in rude health ♦ be rude ♦ be rude to ♦ be rude to smb. ♦ become rude ♦ evil and rude ♦ in rude health ♦ rude act ♦ rude action ♦ rude awakening ♦ rude fellow ♦ rude habit ♦ rude health ♦ rude implement ♦ rude remark ♦ rude reply ♦ rude reproach. Additional references.

Beginning with "rude": rude-boys, rude-looking, rude-noise.

Albanian

i vrazhdë (abrupt, austere, bad tempered, boeotian, boorish, brutal, brutish, churlish, clownish, coarse, crude, discordant, dissonant, earthy, fretful, grave, gross, hard, hard-fisted, harsh, heavy-handed, ill natured, low-bred, morose, murky, robustious, rough, rough spoken, scurrilous, severe, stern, sullen, surly, truculent, uncivil, unfinished, unhandsome, unmannerly), i thjeshtë (abecedarian, artless, austere, bare, chaste, childlike, common, easy, elementary, enlisted, folksy, foolproof, Hick, home-bred, homely, homespun, humble, inelaborate, informal, ingenuous, inornate, mere, modest, native, natural, neat, not mingled, onefold, ordinary, plain, prime, primitive, private, pure, quotidian, russet, rustic, simple, unaffected, unassuming, unceremonious, unpretending, unpretentious, unsophisticated, very), i pasjellshëm (discourteous, disrespectful, graceless, ill bred, impolite, uncivil), i palëmuar (home-bred, homespun, rough, shaggy, unequal, unhewn, unmounted), i paedukuar (dark, ignoramus, ill bred, ill mannered, illiberal, indocile, inurbane, mannerless, uneducated, unenlightened, unintelligent, unlearned, unmannerly, unnurtured, unschooled, untaught, untrained, untutored, without cultural interests), i ashpër (argute, austere, biting, bluff, bluffy, Brant, bristly, brusque, churlish, coarse, crude, ding-dong, dour, draconian, draconic, gravelly, grim, gruff, hard, harsh, ill, ill natured, inclement, keen, malevolent, pipy, raucous, rigid, rigorous, rough, rough and ready, savage, scabrous, scathing, scratchy, severe, shaggy, slashing, smart, stern, strict, tough, truculent, uncharitable, unkind, unmerciful, violent, wiry). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فظ (abrupt, blunt, boor, boorish, brusque, brutish, burly, chuffy, churlish, clownish, coarse, country, crude, crusty, curt, discourteous, earthy, grievous, gross, gruff, hairy, harsh, hoarse, ill mannered, impolite, indelicate, low, mannerless, obdurate, off hand, plug ugly, precipitous, rough, rough and ready, ruffianly, rugged, rustic, savage, scathe, serious, shaggy, short, sour, surly, uncivil, uncouth, unkind, unmannerly, unprintable), ‏قوي (able bodied, acute, athletic, brawny, burly, forceful, forcible, full-bodied, furious, generous, hardy, hearty, heavy duty, husky, incorrodible, intense, intensive, keen, lively, lusty, manly, mighty, muscular, pithy, potent, powered, powerful, precious, pronounced, reliable, robust, sledge hammer, spanking, staunch, stern, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, telling, tight, tough, trig, vehement, vigorous, violent, virtuous, vivid, youthful), ‏وقح (abrasive, barefaced, blatant, bold, brazen, cool, flippant, hardy, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nervy, off hand, overbold, pert, presuming, presumptuous, rascal, sassy, saucy, scamp, shameless, smart), ‏غير مهذب (bad form, common, impolite, indecorous, uncivil, unkempt, unrefined), ‏غير مؤدب (ill mannered), ‏غر (artless, calf's, callow, child, decoy, half-witted, inexperienced, naive, raw, stranger, unskilled, young), ‏عنيف (bitter, dragon's, drastic, fell, fierce, gory, heady, impetuous, knockabout, outrageous, passionate, rabid, rigorous, robust, rough, ruthless, scurrilous, set, severe, sharp, shrewd, smart, stiff, stout, strenuous, stringent, strong, torricellian, tough, tumultuous, turbulent, vehement, violent, volcanic), ‏خشن (boorish, bristly, coarse, crude, gross, gruff, ill mannered, impolite, indelicate, jagged, mannerless, plebeian, rasping, raucous, rough, roughen, rowdy, rugged, rustic, sand, scabrous, scratchy, stiff, surly, tough, toughen, uncivil, uncouth, vulgar), ‏جلف (blunt, boorish, coarse, crude, gruff, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, rough, roughneck, rude fellow, scuff, uncivil, uncouth), ‏جاهل (artless, benighted, blockhead, ignorant, illiterate, innocent, nescient, primitive, raw, simple, unaware, unlettered, untaught), ‏شرير (bad, black, black-hearted, dark, devil, diabolic, diabolical, evil, ill, iniquitous, maleficent, malicious, malign, nasty, naughty, rascally, reprobate, rogue, roguish, sinister, spiteful, unholy, vicious, wicked). (various references)

Bulgarian 

суров (austere, coarse, crude, dour, draconian, flinty, green, grim, hard, harsh, iron, iron-bound, raw, rigorous, rough, rugged, severe, smart, stiff, uncharitable, uncooked, uncouth, unpitying, unseasoned), як (brawny, chopping, fast, fit, flourishing, grunting ox, hard, husky, iron, lusty, robust, rugged, stalwart, stocky, stout, sturdy, thickset, tough, two-fisted, vigorous, yak), рязък (abrupt, acid, bitter, brief, brusque, curt, gravelly, hard, incisive, jarring, jerky, metallic, offhand, pipy, point blank, rapid, sharp, short, short-spoken, shrill, snappish, snappy, snippy, stark, straight out, strident, trenchant), тромав (awkward, bumbling, clumsy, cumbersome, cumbrous, elephantine, flat-footed, gawky, hamfisted, heavy, hulking, lumbering, lumpish, lumpy, maladroit, ponderous, shambling, stodgy, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unwieldy), груб (abrupt, bearish, boeotian, brusque, callous, churlish, clownish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, common, crude, cubbish, curt, earthy, feral, glaring, graceless, gross, gruff, hard boiled, harsh, heavy, hoggish, homespun, horny, loutish, low, material, outlandish, raspy, raucous, raw, rough, rough-shod, rowdy, rugged, russet, rusty, short, surly, tough, uncivil, uncouth, wild and woolly), оскърбителен (abusive, contumelious, galling, insulting, invidious, offensive, opprobrious, uncomplitary, wrongful), нетактичен (clumsy, gauche, indelicate, indiscreet, maladroit, tactless, tasteless, undiplomatic, unhappy, untactful), невъзпитан (cubbish, ill, ill mannered, low, low-bred, mannerless, surly, unbred, underbred, unmannered, unmannerly), необработен (crude, raw, rough, uncultivated, uncultured, undressed, waste), здрав (blooming, durable, entire, fast, fit, flourishing, flush, good, hard, healthful, healthy, hearty, hefty, invulnerable, lasting, laudable, lusty, nervous, nervy, reliable, right, robust, rubbery, rugged, safe, salubrious, seaworthy, secure, serviceable, sinewy, sleek, sober, sound, stalwart, stanch, staunch, steady, stout, strapping, strong, sturdy, substantial, sure footed, taintless, tenacious, thickset, uncorrupted, up to the mark, vigorous, well, well-conditioned, without scathe), буен (bacchanalian, blustery, catchy, ebullient, exuberant, furious, gross, high-spirited, hot, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hotheaded, impetuous, incandescent, jazz, jazzy, knockabout, lively, lush, luxuriant, obstreperous, opulent, phrenetic, prancing, profuse, proud, puffy, puppyish, rambunctious, rampant, rank, riotous, roaring, rough, rough and tumble, rousing, rumbustious, spicy, spirited, sweeping, thick, torrential, tumultuous, turbulent, unchecked, ungovernable, unruly, untamed, vigorous, violent, wanton, zizzi), просташки (blatant, caddish, jazz, jumped-up, loud, low-minded, oafish, ornery, philistine, raffish, rank, rough, savage, swinish, tasteless, underbred, unrefined, vulgar), примитивен (barbaric, primary, primitive, pristine, uncouth, wild and woolly), приблизителен (approximate, approximative, near, proximate, round), изненадващ (surprise, surprising, unlooked for, unthought of). (various references)

Chinese 

莽 (Gompsocleis mikado, Illicium anisatum), 麤 (coarse, rough), 野 (boundary, field, limit, open space, plain, wild), 粗鲁 (Crass), 粗 (coarse, crude, rough, thick, unfinished, vulgar), 無禮 (rudely), 獗 (unruly), 怭 (frivolous), � (arrogant, to cover), 傖 (low fellow, rough, rustic), 不遜 (impertinent), 不客氣 (blunt, don't mention it, impolite, you're welcome). (various references)

Czech

silný (bad, big, boisterous, good, hard, heady, heavy, hefty, high, large, lusty, mighty, muscular, potent, powerful, red blooded, robust, rugged, stalwart, stiff, stocky, stout, strong, sturdy, thick, tough, valid, vigorous, violent), prudký (abrupt, acrimonious, big, bulge, effervescent, ferocious, fierce, fiery, glaring, grievous, gusty, heady, heated, heavy, high, hot tempered, hot-headed, impetuous, intense, keen, passional, passionate, peppery, rapid, rash, robust, sharp, steep, stormy, strong, sweeping, tempestuous, towering, tumultuous, vehement, vicious, vigorous, violent, virulent), neslušný (discourteous, immodest, impolite, improper, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, lewd, misbecoming, obscene, unbecoming, uncivil, uncouth, unpresentable, unseemly, unsuitable), náhlý (abrupt, acute, precipitous, sudden, surprise), hrubý (abusive, blue, boorish, brut, brutish, coarse, coarsened, crass, crude, foul-mouthed, grating, gross, gruff, harsh, howling, knockabout, leathery, low, outrageous, raw, rough, rough and ready, ruddy, rustic, scabrous, sylvan, uncouth, uneven, unmannerly, unprintable, vulgar). (various references)

Danish

uhøflig (impolite). (various references)

Dutch

onheus (impolite), onbeleefd (impolite), lomp (abusive, coarse, crude, harsh, impolite, rag, scrap), honds (brutal, gruff, harsh, impolite, rough, sour, sullen, surly, unkind, unpleasant). (various references)

Esperanto

malĝentila. (various references)

Faeroese

illavorðin (brazen, impertinent), frekur (brazen, impertinent), óreinur (brazen, impertinent). (various references)

Farsi 

ناهموار (Bumpy, Jagged, Ragged, Rough, Rugged, Scaly, Uneven, Unfair), گستاخ (Arrogant, Barefaced, Bold, Boldface, Brash, Cheeky, Forward, Immodest, Impertinent, Impudent, Indecent, Insolent, Jaunty, Perky, Pert, Presumptuous, Unabashed, Unshaped(En), Wanton), زمخت (Blowsy, Blowzy, Churlish, Clumsy, Coarse, Crass, Crude, Gross, Hard, Impolite, Raucous, Rough, Rugged, Tough), خام (Crude, Halfbaked, Impolite, Raw, Simple), خشن (Blatant, Blowsy, Blowzy, Boorish, Brutish, Churlish, Coarse, Crusty, Gruff, Harsh, High, Hoarse, Impolite, Indelicate, Knockkneed, Plebeian, Ragged, Random, Rough, Rowdy, Scraggy, Truculent, Ungracious, Unkempt, Unmannered, Unmennerly, Wooden), جسور (Adventurer, Bold, Boldface, Cocky, Defiant, Forward, Fresh, Hardy, Immodest, Insolent, Pert, Presuming, Presumptuous, Wanton). (various references)

Finnish

raakamainen (brutal, coarse), raaka (brutal, coarse, crude, green, not ripe, raw, rough, unrefined, unripe, unwrought, yard), törkeä (coarse, grave, gross), karkea (coarse, harsh, rough), epäkohtelias (discourteous, ill-mannered, impolite), epähieno (discourteous, ill-mannered, ungentlemanly, unladylike, unpolished). (various references)

French

impoli. (various references)

Frisian

bot (impolite, quite, very, very much). (various references)

German

unverschämt (abandoned, barefaced, blatant, bold, brash, brazen, brazen faced, brazenly, contumelious, exorbitant, impertinent, impertinently, impudent, impudently, insolent, insolently, insulting, nervy, obscene, offensive, offensively, outrageous, sassy, saucy, tacky, unashamedly, unblushing, unconscionable, unconscionably, wicked), unhöflich (bad-mannered, discourteous, discourteously, disrespectful, ignorant, ignorantly, ill bred, impolite, impolitely, uncivil, uncivily, uncomplimentary, uncourtly, ungentlemanly, ungracious, ungraciously), unanständig (bad, dirty, gross, ill mannered, immodest, immodestly, indecent, indecently, indelicate, indelicately, lewd, naughty, rudely, undecent, unprincipled). (various references)

Greek 

βάναυσοσ (churlish, coarse, crude, rough, roughneck), αγροίκοσ (boorish, bounder, churl, clownish, curmudgeon, lout, roughneck, rube, rustic, scullion, yokel), αγροίκος (boorish, churl, churlish, coarse), αγενήσ (caddish, coarse, discourteous, heel, ignoble, impolite, indelicate, mannerless, saucy, uncivil, uncourteous, underbred, ungracious, unladylike, unmannered, unmannerly), αγενής (impolite), ανάγωγοσ (ill mannered, unmanageable, untoward, untractable), τραχύσ (abrasive, abrupt, coarse, grating, gritty, gruff, harsh, inclinable, ragged, raucous, rough, rugged, scabrous, scraggly, screechy, seamy, throaty, tough). (various references)

Hebrew 

לא מ� ומס (discourteous, ill bred, impolite, uncivil), פתאומי (abrupt, sudden), חצוף (bold, brassy, fresh, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nervy, pert), �'למי (crude, inchoate, pupal, raw), �'ס רוח (boor, caddish, haughty, roughneck, vulgar), �'ס (bulky, clumsy, coarse, crude, impolite, indelicate, lubricious, rough). (various references)

Hungarian

nyers (assertive, blunt, brusque, burly, coarse, concrete, crude, ecru, feral, gruff, harsh, pure, ramage, raw, rough cast, rough spoken, rugged, surly, undressed), goromba (bouncy, brusque, chuff, churlish, coarse, crude, foulmouthed, graceless, gross, hirsute, rough, ruffianly, surly), faragatlan (boorish, churlish, earthy, hairy-heeled, homespun, ill bred, loutish, rough-hewn, rugged, tacky, uncouth, unframed, unhewn). (various references)

Icelandic

ósvífinn (brazen, impertinent), ókurteis (impolite). (various references)

Indonesian

lancang (bold, brash, impolite, underbred), kasar (abrupt, abusive, artless, blunt, boorish, broad, brutal, brutish, crass, crude, curt, disrespectful, gruff, menial, raw, unkind, vulgar). (various references)

Italian

scortese (discourteous, disobliging, impolite, unfriendly, ungracious, unkind, unneighborly), rozzo (boorish, churlish, coarse, crude, cubbish, impolite, loutish, rank, rough, rugged, uncouth, unmannerly, unsubtle). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�'い (rough, wild), 粗野 (rough, rustic, vulgar). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぞ�"ざい (careless, slovenly), そぼう (hard, violent, wild), そ�"つ (at fault, careless, rash, thoughtless), そや (rough, rustic, vulgar), ぶさほう (bad manners, discourtesy, ill-mannered), ぶれい (impolite), ぶえ�"りょ (outspoken), ふつつか (incompetent, inexperienced, stupid), ふとどき (insolent, nefarious), あらっぽい (rough), あらい (coarse, rough, wild), あらあらしい (desolate, gruff, harsh, rough, violent, wild), ら�"ぼう (lawless, reckless, rough, unreasonable, violent), けしから�" (inexcusable, outrageous). (various references)

Korean 

무례한 (impolite). (various references)

Manx

neuellynagh (artless, bad taste, ill-mannered, impolite, inartistic, vulgar), mollagh (bushy, hirsute, rough, rough-coated, rugged), lunagh (contemptuous, mocker, reproachful, rude person, sarcastic, slanderer, slandering, slanderous), garroo (boisterous, coarse, coarse-fibred, crude, dirty, dirty of weather, hairy, harsh, husky, ill-mannered, jagged, low, naughty, pockmarked, raw, rough, rough-and-tumble, rough-spoken, rugged, scraggy, stormy, stormy as sea, stubbly, uncouth, undressed, uneven, uneven as ground, vulgar), drogh-ellynagh (bad mannered), daaney (bold, cheeky, cocky, confident, daring, presumptuous), barbagh (rough, rough-mannered, rugged, severe, sharp). (various references)

Norwegian

uhøflig (discourteous, impolite), frekk (brazen, cheeky, impertinent). (various references)

Papiamen

grosero (impolite). (various references)

Pig Latin

uderay.(various references)

Portuguese

grosseiro (awkward, bearish, blanket, boorish, bumbling, caddish, churlish, cloddish, clownish, clumsy, coarse, coarse-grained, common, crass, crude, cub, curmudgeon, curmudgeonly, earthy, gross, gruff, harsh, heavy-handed, hoggish, homely, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelaborate, joggly, lacerated, left-handed, lob, loutish, low-bred, lubberly, lumpish, piggish, ragged, ribald, rough, rugged, scurrilous, surly, swinish, thick, uncivil, uncouth, uncultivated, unkind, unladylike, unmannerly, unparliamentary, untaught, vulgar, vulgarian, wooden), descortês (discourteous, displeasing, inurbane, joggly, mannerless, rough, unceremonious, uncivil, ungracious, unmannerly). (various references)

Romanian

rudimentar (abortive, inchoate, rudimental, rudimentary), robust (bouncing, Hale, Hardy, hefty, iron, lusty, red blooded, robust, rugged, stalwart, stout, strapping, strong, strong-limbed, sturdy, tough, well knit), violent (acute, bad, boisterous, desperate, fiercely, furious, heady, heavy, high, high-spirited, impetuous, raging, rampageous, rampant, rankly, robust, rough, rowdy, rugged, severe, sharp, splitting, strong, sudden, towering, truculent, ungovernable, vehement, violent, virulent, wanton), viguros (bouncing, chopping, emphatic, forceful, forcible, forcibly, full-blooded, green, Hale, Hardy, hearty, hot stuff, humming, intense, lusty, nervous, pithy, potent, red blooded, robust, sapful, sinewy, stalwart, stout, stoutly, strapping, strong, strong-limbed, thriving, tough, vigorous, vigorously), puternic (acute, ardent, authoritative, biting, catchy, drastic, exquisite, fierce, flush, forceful, forcible, forcibly, great, hard, heavily, heavy, high, important, intense, intensely, intensive, leonine, loud, lusty, marrowy, mighty, muscular, nervous, nervy, pithy, potent, powerful, pronounced, resistant, robust, rough, searching, severe, sinewy, solid, stark, stout, strapping, strong, tough, towering, vigorous, violent, virulent), primitiv (crude, dark, primal, primary, primeval, primitive, primitively), neprelucrat (crude, raw, rough), mojicesc (boorish, churlish, clownish, coarse), impertinent (cocky, gay, impertinent, insolent, insolently, obtrusive, provocative), ignorant (benighted, cipher, dark, dunce, ignoramus, ignorant, illiterate, inexpert, innocent, know-nothing, nescient, unknowing, unlearned), grosolan (boorish, broad, brutish, churlish, clumsy, coarse, coarsely, crass, crude, currish, elephantine, flagrant, glaring, gross, grossly, homespun, ill bred, indecorous, indelicately, inurbane, large, loutish, oafish, rank, rough, roughly, rugged, rustic, trivial, unaccomplished, unmannerly, vulgar), fãrã maniere (impolite), brutal (beastly, boorish, brutal, brutally, cruelly, feral, insensate, rough, roughly, savage, savagely, truculent, violent), brusc (abrupt, abruptly, all at once, bang, bounce, brusque, plop, plump, rash, roughly, sharp, sharply, short, shortly, snap, sudden, suddenly, unawares, unexpected, unexpectedly), amar (bitter, bitterly, bitterness, dreadful, gall, poignant, salt, severe, sore, sour, suffering). (various references)

Russian 

грубый (bad, barbaric, barbarous, bearish, beastly, bestial, blunt, boeotian, boor, boorish, brusque, brutal, brute, brute-force, brutish, churlish, clownish, coarse, common, crass, crude, curmudgeonly, currish, fresh, fulsome, gross, gross ear, gruff, hard bitten, hardhanded, harsh, heathenish, homespun, horny, ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-natured, jazz, larrikin, loutish, low down, low-lived, rank, raucous, raw, rawhide, ribald, robust, rough, rough and ready, scratchy, scurrilous, uncivil, uncultivated, unfinished, unhewn, unmannerly, vulgar, woolly). (various references)

Scottish

mi-mhodhail (unpolite), doibhear. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sirov (coarse, crude, gothic, raw, underdone), prost (coarse, common, commoner, easy, folksy, homely, homespun, inurbane, low-bred, lowbrow, mere, simple, trivial, underbred, vulgar), nevaspitan (bad-mannered, churlish, cubbish, malapert, naughty, unbred, uncivil, unmannerly), neuljudan (ill mannered, impolite, rough, unbecoming, uncomely, unmannerly), neučtiv (discourteous, disrespectful, impolite, unmannerly), nepristojan (bawdry, bawdy, improper, indecent, lewd, racy, scabrous, spicy, unbecoming, vulgar), neobrađen (crude, fallow, uncultivated, uncultured, unimproved), nagao (hasty, hotspur, impetuous, impulsive, precipitant, precipitate, precipitatious, rush, sudden, temerarious). (various references)

Spanish

rudo (burly, gruff, hard, loutish), insolente (impertinent, impolite, impudent, insolent, pert, snippy, upstart), grosero (boorish, bounder, churl, coarse, crass, double chin, earthy, foulmouthed, gross, impolite, lower, nasty, ripe, rough, roughly, rudely, ruffian, scurrilous, uncouth, unpleasant, unsubtle), descortés (discourteous, impolite, offhand, uncivil). (various references)

Swedish

ohövlig (discourteous, disrespectful, impolite, uncivil, ungracious), ohyfsad (caddish, clownish, crude, ill mannered, ill-behaved, low-bred, uncivil, uncouth, unmannerly, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar), obildad (bookless, ignorant, illiterate, letterless, lowbrow, low-browed, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, uneducated, untaught). (various references)

Thai

หยาบคาย (caddish, disagreeable, ill-bred, indecency, indecent, mucky, neanderthal, ribald, robustious, rough, swinish). (various references)

Turkish

kaba (abrupt, barbarous, base, bearish, boorish, brusque, brutal, brutish, churlish, clodhopping, coarse, coarse grained, common, crass, crude, discourteous, disobliging, disrespectful, doric, foul, graceless, gross, gruff, gutter, hard-hitting, harsh, heavy, hobnailed, hoggish, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelegant, loud, loutish, offhand, offhanded, ornery, puffy, rank, rough, rough-hewn, roughly, rugged, rustic, short-spoken, splay, swinish, tactless, unceremonious, unchivalrous, uncivil, uncomplaisant, uncomplimentary, uncouth, underbred, unfinished, ungainly, ungalant, ungentle, ungentlemanlike, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, ungracious, unmannerly, unparliamentary, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar), beceriksiz (awkward, bungler, bungling, clumsy, Duff, duffer, feckless, flat-footed, fumbling, gauche, gawky, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-handed, helpless, impractical, inapt, incompetent, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inept, inexpert, left handed, lubber, maladroit, manque, ne'er do well, never-do-well, oaf, oafish, resourceless, shiftless, slouch, unaccomplished, unhandy, unskilful, untalented), bet (rugged), cahil (benighted, ignoramus, ignorant, illiterate, nescient, uneducated, unenlightened, unilluminated, uninformed, unknowing, unlearned, unlettered, unread, untutored, yahoo), edepsiz (dirty, immodest, indecent, nasty, naughty, shameless), engebeli (bumpy, rough, rugged, uneven), gürbüz (bonny, bouncing, robust, sturdy), haşin (austere, crusty, forbidding, harsh, inclement, rough, severe, stern, truculent), ham (crude, green, immature, raw, uncut, unrefined, unripe), hantal (bulky, chubby, clumsy, cumbersome, cumbrous, elephantine, gross, hulking, hulky, loutish, lubber, lumbering, lumpish, plodding, ponderous, sesquipedalian, soggy, stodgy, ungainly, ungraceful, unwieldy, yahoo), arsiz (impolite), ilkel (crude, elementary, embryonic, primal, primeval, primitive, primordial, proto-, rudimental, rudimentary), vahşi (atrocious, barbarian, barbaric, brutal, brute, churlish, feral, ferocious, haggard, heathen, heathenish, savage, tigerish, truculent, uncivilized, wild, wolfish), kaba saba (clownish, coarse, common, gauche, rank, robust, robustious, rough), kabaca yapılmış (rough-hewn), kabataslak (in outline, rough, roughly, sketchy), kulağı tırmalayan (grating, ragged), nezaketsiz (brusque, crude, discourteous, disrespectful, impolite, indelicate, offhand, short-spoken, unchivalrous, uncivil, unkind), sapasağlam (as large as life, as sound as bell, copper-bottomed, fit as a fiddle, in perfect health, iron, knockabout, safe and sound, sound), saygısız (brash, discourteous, disregardful, disrespectful, flip, flippant, hoggish, impertinent, impious, impudent, inconsiderate, insolent, irreverent, stroppy, undutiful, unfilial, ungalant, unmannerly), tümsekli (bumpy, humped, humpy), terbiyesiz (bad, blackguard, blackguardly, broad, caddish, churlish, coarse, coarse grained, dirty, graceless, ill bred, ill mannered, immodest, immoral, impertinent, impolite, improper, impudent, indelicate, inelegant, insolent, mannerless, naughty, ribald, risky, risque, scabrous, shameless, uncultured, underbred, undressed, unmannerly, unpolished), işlenmemiş (crude, raw, rough, unbroken, uncommitted, uncultivated, uncut, undeveloped, undressed, unfinished, unlaboured, unreclaimed, untilled, unworked). (various references)

Turkmen 

gцdek. (various references)

Ukrainian

грубий (abrupt, artless, barbaresque, barbaric, base, bearish, boarish, broad, brusque, brute, caddish, chuffy, churlish, clownish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, crass, crude, gross, hard boiled, homely, ill bred, knockabout, offhand, plebeian, primitive, ribald, rough, rough spoken, scratchy, shaggy, surly, swinish, truculent, uncouth), неввічливий (coarse, ill mannered, impolite, non-conventional, uncivil, ungracious), брутальний (brutal), примітивний (primal, primitive). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vô lễ (disrepectful, impolite, malapert, uncivil, unpolite, untoward), láo xược; thô lỗ thô sơ man rợ, khoẻ mạnh (brawny, fresh, hale, hardy, robust, sound, sturdy), khiếm nhã (flippant, graceless, indelicate, inurbane, mannerless), không văn minh mạnh mẽ, dữ dội (boot, formidable, heavy, high, impetuous, keen, ravenous, severse, thundering, towering, vehement, violent), bất lịch sự (discourteous, indecent, untoward), đột ngột tráng kiện. (various references)

Welsh

taeogaidd (churlish), di-foes (unmannerly), diaddurn (plain, unadorned), anfoesgar (unmannerly). (various references)

agrestes, agrestia, agrestibus, durus, immitis, incultus, inmitis, inportuna, inportune, inportunis, rudis. (various references)

bronco. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "rude": rudely, rudeness, rudenesses, ruder, ruderal, ruderals, rudesbies, rudesby, rudest. (additional references)

Words ending with "rude": crude, detrude, extrude, intrude, obtrude, overrude, protrude, prude. (additional references)

Words containing "rude": crudely, crudeness, crudenesses, cruder, crudes, crudest, detruded, detrudes, extruded, extruder, extruders, extrudes, imprudence, imprudences, imprudent, imprudently, intruded, intruder, intruders, intrudes, jurisprudence, jurisprudences, jurisprudent, jurisprudential, jurisprudentially, jurisprudents, obtruded, obtruder, obtruders, obtrudes, protruded, protrudes, prudence, prudences, prudent, prudential, prudentially, prudently, pruderies, prudery, prudes, recrudesce, recrudesced, recrudescence, recrudescences, recrudescent, recrudesces, recrudescing, strudel, strudels. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Rude" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: brude, drude, erude, gude, kude, Oude, Rade, radek, Radev, Radue, Rde, Rdme, Rdte, Reudel, rhd, ridex, ridje, Roddi, rodeg, rodel, Rodge, Rodhe, rodi, rodje, roede, rohde, roide, roude, ruce, rud, ruda, Rudai, rudas, rudd, Ruddel, Rudden, ruddes, rudei, Rudel, Ruden, rudes, rudis, rudle, Rudoe, Rudp, rudu, rudus, Rudz, Rufe, Ruhe, Ruhee, ruide, ruje, ruke, rume, Rundvee, ruqe, Rure, ruree, Rusday, rute, ruten, Ruutel, ruwe, ruze, ude, urda, urde, urdo, urds, ured, urid, uride, xude. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dure, rued.

-1 letter: due, red, rue, urd.

-2 letters: de, ed, er, re.

+1 letter: crude, cured, demur, drupe, druse, duper, dured, dures, lured, mured, nuder, perdu, prude, redub, redux, ruder, ruled, trued, udder, under, uredo, urged.

+2 letters: adjure, argued, aulder, bedrug, bruted, budder, budger, burden, burdie, buried, burked, burled, burned, burped, burred, cruder, crudes, curbed, curded, curdle, curled, curred, cursed, curved, dauber, decury, demure, demurs, detour, devour, dourer, douser, drogue, drudge, drupes, druses, dubber, ducker, dueler, duffer, duiker, duller, dumber, dumper, dunker, dunner, dupers, dupery, duress, durned, durrie, duster, eluder, endure, enduro, enured, furled, furred, gerund, gourde, grudge, guider, gurged, hurdle, hurled, inured, judder, judger, juried, lauder, louder, loured, lurked, mudder, murder, nudger, nurled, nursed, ordure, perdue, perdus, poured, prudes, pruned, pureed, purged, purled, purred, pursed, quired, redbud, redbug, redout, redubs, reduce, refund, remuda, reused, rogued, rouged, rouped, roused, routed, rubbed, rubied, ruched, rucked, rudder, ruddle, rudely, rudest, ruffed, rugged, ruined, rundle, rushed, rusted, rutted, soured, sudser, sunder, surfed, surged, toured, truced, trudge, turfed, turned, udders, unbred, undoer, undrew, unread, uredia, uredos, ureide.