Rude

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  rude
       adj 1: socially incorrect in behavior; "resentment flared at such
              an unmannered intrusion" [syn: {ill-mannered}, {unmannered},
               {unmannerly}]
       2: (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace [syn: {ill-bred},
           {bounderish}, {lowbred}, {underbred}, {yokelish}]
       3: lacking civility or good manners; "want nothing from you but
          to get away from your uncivil tongue"- Willa Cather [syn:
          {uncivil}] [ant: {civil}]
       4: (used especially of commodities) in the natural unprocessed
          condition; "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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  rude [WPI] 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. Compare
     {all-elbows}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  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}.
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (1994-10-27)