# rude

Pronunciation: say "ROOD" US /ɹud/, UK /ɹuːd/

## Adjective

1. Lacking good manners; behaving in a way that is impolite or disrespectful toward others.
   - Simple: Not polite, acting in a way that hurts or upsets other people.
   - _Her rude comments about the food embarrassed everyone at dinner._
   - _Ignoring the question entirely struck them as needlessly rude._
2. Referring to sex or bodily functions in a way regarded as improper, obscene, or offensive.
   - Simple: About sex or the body in a way that can shock or offend.
   - _The comedian filled his act with rude jokes about bodily functions._
   - _She quickly hid the rude magazine before her parents arrived._
3. Sudden, harsh, and violent; abrupt or turbulent in force.
   - Simple: Happening suddenly and roughly, in a way that is not gentle.
   - _The blaring alarm was a rude awakening after such a quiet night._
   - _The fire alarm gave us all a rude awakening at three in the morning._
4. Made or done in a simple, rough, or primitive way; lacking refinement, polish, or skill in construction or execution.
   - Simple: Made or done in a simple, rough way, without much skill or polish.
   - _The settlers threw up a rude cabin before the first snow fell._
   - _Archaeologists uncovered rude stone tools shaped by early humans._
6. Hearty and vigorous, especially in robust physical condition, as in the phrase rude health.
   - Simple: Strong and very healthy, with lots of energy.
   - _Despite his years, the colonel stayed in rude health and rode daily._
   - _The local economy was in rude health that year, defying every forecast._
7. Strikingly sexy; overtly and boldly attractive. *(dialectal, Multicultural London English)*
   - Simple: Very sexy and extremely good-looking.
   - _In that outfit she looked proper rude, and he couldn't stop staring._
   - _In the photos from her birthday, she looks proper rude in that tight black dress, and the comments are full of heart-eye emojis._
8. Excellent and impressively good; a general term of approval. *(dialectal, Multicultural London English)*
   - Simple: Really good, excellent, and impressive.
   - _That goal he scored last night was well rude, the best I've seen all season._
   - _He pulled off the rudest dunk anyone had seen all season._

## Adjective

5. Lacking education, training, or refinement; untaught, ignorant, and unpolished. *(dated)*
   - Simple: Having little learning or training, and rough and unpolished.

## Origin

Latin rudis, which meant "rough, raw, rude, wild, untilled," passed into Old French as rude or ruide and then into Middle English as rude.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/rude (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).