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Rude \Rude\, a. [Compar. Ruder; superl. Rudest.] [F., fr. L. rudis.]

  1. Characterized by roughness; umpolished; raw; lacking delicacy or refinement; coarse.

    Such gardening tools as art, yet rude, . . . had formed.
    --Milton.

  2. Hence, specifically:

    1. 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.

      Rude and unpolished stones.
      --Bp. Stillingfleet.

      The heaven-born child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.
      --Milton.

    2. 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.

      He was but rude in the profession of arms.
      --Sir H. Wotton.

      the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
      --Gray.

    3. Violent; tumultuous; boisterous; inclement; harsh; severe; -- said of the weather, of storms, and the like; as, the rude winter.

      [Clouds] pushed with winds, rude in their shock.
      --Milton.

      The rude agitation [of water] breaks it into foam.
      --Boyle.

    4. Barbarous; fierce; bloody; impetuous; -- said of war, conflict, and the like; as, the rude shock of armies.

    5. 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.

      Rude am I in my speech.
      --Shak.

      Unblemished by my rude translation.
      --Dryden.

      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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rudest

a. (en-superlative of: rude)

Usage examples of "rudest".

You know, Mother, she's the first real friend I've had, and I think she's splendid, though the first weeks she was here she was really the naughtiest, rudest girl in the school.

And when I suggested that he might like me to keep house for him he answered in the rudest way that he wouldn't like it at all!

I remember that Geoffrey told me he was the rudest man in London, which I don't find it difficult to believe!

Afterwards, he held a litde wake of his own in the Oxford Bar's back room with three or four of the loudest, rudest, and funniest hacks around.

It's about the rudest thing you can do to an Elf to speak Orcish in front of him.

Arruns, if he had little of the Etruscan about him in his language, which was Latin of the rudest kind, spoken in a broad Greek accent, had at least the corpulence for which the foretellers of the future [53] were proverbial.

The milestone stood where four roads met, and close to it, as marking where the territory of Nicæa touched that of a neighbouring township, stood one of the statues of the god Terminus, the [147] boundary-marker, a roughly hewn pedestal of granite, surmounted with a human bust of the rudest shaping.