Dictionary Entry
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
- 1superlative
Characterized by roughness; umpolished; raw; lacking delicacy or refinement; coarse.
- 2superlative
Unformed by taste or skill; not nicely finished; not smoothed or polished; -- said especially of material things; as, rude workmanship.
- 3superlative
Of untaught manners; unpolished; of low rank; uncivil; clownish; ignorant; raw; unskillful; -- said of persons, or of conduct, skill, and the like.
- 4superlative
Violent; tumultuous; boisterous; inclement; harsh; severe; -- said of the weather, of storms, and the like; as, the rude winter.
- 5superlative
Barbarous; fierce; bloody; impetuous; -- said of war, conflict, and the like; as, the rude shock of armies.
- 6superlative
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.
- 7adjective
socially incorrect in behavior
"resentment flared at such an unmannered intrusion"
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- 8adjective
lacking civility or good manners- Willa Cather
"want nothing from you but to get away from your uncivil tongue"
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- 9adjective
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"
- 10adjective
(of persons) lacking in refinement or grace
- 11adjective
(used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes
"natural yogurt"
"natural produce"
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