Rude \Rude\, a. [Compar. Ruder; superl. Rudest.] [F., fr. L.
   rudis.]
   1. Characterized by roughness; umpolished; raw; lacking
      delicacy or refinement; coarse.
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            Such gardening tools as art, yet rude, . . . had
            formed.                               --Milton.
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   2. Hence, specifically:
      (a) Unformed by taste or skill; not nicely finished; not
          smoothed or polished; -- said especially of material
          things; as, rude workmanship. "Rude was the cloth."
          --Chaucer.
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                Rude and unpolished stones.       --Bp.
                                                  Stillingfleet.
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                The heaven-born child
                All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.
                                                  --Milton.
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      (b) Of untaught manners; unpolished; of low rank; uncivil;
          clownish; ignorant; raw; unskillful; -- said of
          persons, or of conduct, skill, and the like. "Mine
          ancestors were rude." --Chaucer.
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                He was but rude in the profession of arms. --Sir
                                                  H. Wotton.
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                the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
                                                  --Gray.
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      (c) Violent; tumultuous; boisterous; inclement; harsh;
          severe; -- said of the weather, of storms, and the
          like; as, the rude winter.
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                [Clouds] pushed with winds, rude in their shock.
                                                  --Milton.
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                The rude agitation [of water] breaks it into
                foam.                             --Boyle.
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      (d) Barbarous; fierce; bloody; impetuous; -- said of war,
          conflict, and the like; as, the rude shock of armies.
      (e) 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. "The rude
          Irish books." --Spenser.
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                Rude am I in my speech.           --Shak.
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                Unblemished by my rude translation. --Dryden.
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   Syn: Impertinent; rough; uneven; shapeless; unfashioned;
        rugged; artless; unpolished; uncouth; inelegant; rustic;
        coarse; vulgar; clownish; raw; unskillful; untaught;
        illiterate; ignorant; uncivil; impolite; saucy;
        impudent; insolent; surly; currish; churlish; brutal;
        uncivilized; barbarous; savage; violent; fierce;
        tumultuous; turbulent; impetuous; boisterous; harsh;
        inclement; severe. See Impertiment.
        [1913 Webster] -- Rude"ly, adv. -- Rude"ness, n.
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	rude
    adj 1: socially incorrect in behavior; "resentment flared at
           such an unmannered intrusion" [syn: ill-mannered, bad-
           mannered, rude, unmannered, unmannerly]
    2: (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace [syn: ill-bred,
       bounderish, lowbred, rude, underbred, yokelish]
    3: lacking civility or good manners; "want nothing from you but
       to get away from your uncivil tongue"- Willa Cather [syn:
       uncivil, rude] [ant: civil, polite]
    4: (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or
       manufactured using only simple or minimal processes; "natural
       yogurt"; "natural produce"; "raw wool"; "raw sugar"; "bales
       of rude cotton" [syn: natural, raw(a), rude(a)]
    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" [syn: crude, primitive,
       rude]

	

	289 Moby Thesaurus words for "rude":
   Doric, Gothic, Philistine, angular, approximate, arrested, artless,
   awkward, backward, barbaric, barbarous, bare, baseborn, basic,
   bawdy, below the salt, benighted, biggety, bluff, bold, bookless,
   boorish, bouncing, brash, brassy, brazen, brusque, bumbling,
   cacophonic, cacophonous, callow, cheeky, choked, churlish,
   chutzpadik, clownish, clumsy, coarse, cockney, cocky, common,
   commonplace, contemptuous, crabbed, cracked, crass, croaking,
   croaky, crude, crusty, curt, deceived, derisive, dirty, discordant,
   discourteous, disharmonic, disharmonious, disrespectful, doggerel,
   dry, dysphemistic, earthy, embryonic, empty-headed, facy, filthy,
   flip, flippant, flush, fresh, functionally illiterate, gally,
   gauche, gaudy, graceless, grammarless, gratuitous, green, gross,
   gruff, guttural, hale, hale and hearty, hardy, harsh,
   harsh-sounding, hearty, heathen, hoarse, homely, homespun,
   hoodwinked, humble, husky, ill, ill-bred, ill-educated,
   ill-mannered, illiterate, imperfect, impertinent, impolite,
   imprecise, improper, impudent, impure, in bad taste, in embryo,
   in ovo, in the rough, inaccurate, inaffable, inartistic,
   inconcinnate, inconcinnous, incorrect, indecent, indecorous,
   indelicate, inelegant, inexact, inexpert, infelicitous, inharmonic,
   inharmonious, insolent, insulting, intrusive, inurbane,
   know-nothing, led astray, lewd, loud, loutish, low, lowborn,
   lowbred, lowbrow, lowly, lubricious, lubricous, lumpy, lusty,
   makeshift, malapert, mannerless, mean, meddlesome, meretricious,
   metallic, misinformed, misinstructed, misshapen, mistaught,
   naughty, nervy, nonclerical, nonintellectual, oafish, obscene,
   offensive, ordinary, outlandish, outrageous, oversimple, pagan,
   pert, plain, plebeian, pornographic, primitive, proximate, ragged,
   raucid, raucous, raw, reductionistic, reductive, ribald, robust,
   robustious, robustuous, rough, rough-hewn, roughcast, roughhewn,
   roupy, rudimental, rudimentary, rugged, sassy, saucy, savage,
   shabby-genteel, simple, simplistic, smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass,
   smutty, squawking, squawky, stalwart, stertorous, stout, strangled,
   strong, stunted, sturdy, surly, taboo, tactless, tasteless, thick,
   third-estate, throaty, tinny, unaccommodating, unblown, unbooked,
   unbookish, unbooklearned, unbriefed, uncalled-for, unceremonious,
   uncivil, uncivilized, uncomplaisant, unconversant, uncourteous,
   uncourtly, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, uncut,
   underdeveloped, undeveloped, undignified, undressed, unedified,
   uneducated, unerudite, uneuphonious, unfashioned, unfelicitous,
   unfinished, unformed, ungallant, ungenteel, ungentlemanly,
   ungraceful, ungracious, unguided, unhandsome, unharmonious, unhewn,
   uninstructed, unintellectual, unlabored, unladylike, unlearned,
   unlettered, unlicked, unliterary, unmannered, unmannerly,
   unpolished, unpolite, unpracticed, unprocessed, unread, unrefined,
   unscholarly, unschooled, unseemly, unskilled, unstudious, untaught,
   untreated, untutored, unversed, unworked, unwrought, vigorous,
   vital, vulgar, wild, wise-ass

	

	rude
 adj.

    1. (of a program) Badly written.

    2. Functionally poor, e.g., a program that is very difficult to use because
    of gratuitously poor (random?) design decisions. Oppose cuspy.

    3. Anything that manipulates a shared resource without regard for its other
    users in such a way as to cause a (non-fatal) problem. Examples: programs
    that change tty modes without resetting them on exit, or windowing programs
    that keep forcing themselves to the top of the window stack.

	

	rude

   [WPI] 1. Badly written or functionally poor, e.g. a program
   that is very difficult to use because of gratuitously poor
   design decisions.  Opposite: cuspy.

   2. Anything that manipulates a shared resource without regard
   for its other users in such a way as to cause a (non-fatal)
   problem.  Examples: programs that change tty modes without
   resetting them on exit, or windowing programs that keep
   forcing themselves to the top of the window stack.  Compare
   all-elbows.

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   (1994-10-27)