Crossword Dictionary
RUDE
rude, ruder, rudely, rudest, boorish, rudes - a
discourteous or impolite
Synonyms
discourteous, disrespectful, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impertinent, impolite, inconsiderate, thoughtless, uncalled-for, uncivil, ungracious, unhandsome, unmannered, unmannerly
Examples
There they might live in peace and safety while all the country round was overrun by rude and barbarous men.
It was rude to act this way to hosts who had invited them into their home on such a special occasion.
I flared up and said much that was unpleasant and even rude to him.
Etymology
late 13c., "coarse, rough, without finish" (of surfaces), from Old French ruide (13c.) and directly from Latin rudis "rough, crude, unlearned," a word of uncertain etymology, related to rudus "rubble." The usual preferred derivation is that it is from the same source as Latin rufus "red" (see rufous) via a notion of raw ("red") meat, but de Vaan points out "there is not a shimmer of a meaning 'red' in rudis or in rudus 'rubble', so that the supposed shift from 'crude (meat)' > 'crude' rests in the air."