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

rude \rude\, a. compar. ruder; superl. rudest. f., fr. l.
   rudis.
   1. characterized by roughness; umpolished; raw; lacking
      delicacy or refinement; coarse.
      1913 webster

            such gardening tools as art, yet rude, . . . had
            formed.                               --milton.
      1913 webster

   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.
          1913 webster

                rude and unpolished stones.       --bp.
                                                  stillingfleet.
          1913 webster

                the heaven-born child
                all meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.
                                                  --milton.
          1913 webster
      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.
          1913 webster

                he was but rude in the profession of arms. --sir
                                                  h. wotton.
          1913 webster

                the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
                                                  --gray.
          1913 webster
      c violent; tumultuous; boisterous; inclement; harsh;
          severe; -- said of the weather, of storms, and the
          like; as, the rude winter.
          1913 webster

                clouds pushed with winds, rude in their shock.
                                                  --milton.
          1913 webster

                the rude agitation of water breaks it into
                foam.                             --boyle.
          1913 webster
      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.
          1913 webster

                rude am i in my speech.           --shak.
          1913 webster

                unblemished by my rude translation. --dryden.
          1913 webster

   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.
        1913 webster
see also:
ruder rudest impertiment rude"ly rude"ness 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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,
         rawa, rudea
     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
see also:
ill-mannered unmannered unmannerly ill-bred bounderish lowbred 
underbred yokelish uncivil civil natural 
rawa rudea crude primitive 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

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

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.


see also:
cuspy all-elbows 

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

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
     
     
see also:
cuspy all-elbows jargon file 

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