rude

rude is a 4-letter English word with 11 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Characterized by roughness; umpolished; raw; lacking delicacy or refinement; coarse. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. superlative. Characterized by roughness; umpolished; raw; lacking delicacy or refinement; coarse.
2. superlative. Unformed by taste or skill; not nicely finished; not smoothed or polished; -- said especially of material things; as, rude workmanship.
3. superlative. Of untaught manners; unpolished; of low rank; uncivil; clownish; ignorant; raw; unskillful; -- said of persons, or of conduct, skill, and the like.
4. superlative. Violent; tumultuous; boisterous; inclement; harsh; severe; -- said of the weather, of storms, and the like; as, the rude winter.
5. superlative. Barbarous; fierce; bloody; impetuous; -- said of war, conflict, and the like; as, the rude shock of armies.
6. superlative. Not finished or complete; inelegant; lacking chasteness or elegance; not in good taste; unsatisfactory in mode of treatment; -- said of literature, language, style, and the like.
7. adjective. socially incorrect in behavior

   "resentment flared at such an unmannered intrusion"

   Synonyms: unmannered, unmannerly

8. adjective. lacking civility or good manners- Willa Cather

   "want nothing from you but to get away from your uncivil tongue"

   Synonyms: uncivil

9. adjective. 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"

   Synonyms: crude, primitive

10. adjective. (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace

    Synonyms: bounderish, lowbred, underbred, yokelish

11. adjective. (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes

    "natural yogurt"

    "natural produce"

    Synonyms: natural, raw

Synonyms

unmannered, unmannerly, uncivil, crude, primitive, bounderish, lowbred, underbred, yokelish, natural, raw

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in rude:

duer, dure, rued, urde

Common word forms

ruder, rudely, rudest, rudeness

Words from these letters

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