RUDE, a. L. rudis. The sense is probably rough, broken, and this word may be allied to raw and crude.
1. rough uneven rugged unformed by art as rude workmanship, that is, roughly finished rude and unpolished stones.
2. Rough of coarse manners unpolished uncivil clownish rustic as a rude countryman rude behavior rude treatment a rude attack.
Ruffian, let go that rude uncivil touch.
3. Violent tumultuous boisterous turbulent as rude winds the rude agitation of the sea.
4. violent fierce impetuous as the rude shock of armies.
5. Harsh inclement as the rude winter.
6. Ignorant untaught savage barbarous as the rude natives of America or of New Holland the rude ancestors of the Greeks.
7. Raw untaught ignorant not skilled or practiced as rude in speech rude in arms.
8. Artless inelegant not polished as a rude translation of Virgil.
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