a. | 1. | Characterized by roughness; umpolished; raw; lacking delicacy or refinement; coarse. |
2. | Unformed by taste or skill; not nicely finished; not smoothed or polished; - said especially of material things; | |
3. | Of untaught manners; unpolished; of low rank; uncivil; clownish; ignorant; raw; unskillful; - said of persons, or of conduct, skill, and the like. | |
4. | Violent; tumultuous; boisterous; inclement; harsh; severe; - said of the weather, of storms, and the like; | |
5. | Barbarous; fierce; bloody; impetuous; - said of war, conflict, and the like; as, the rude shock of armies. |
Adj. | 1. | rude - socially incorrect in behavior; "resentment flared at such an unmannered intrusion" |
2. | rude - (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace | |
3. | rude - lacking civility or good manners; "want nothing from you but to get away from your uncivil tongue"- Willa Cather Synonyms: uncivil | |
4. | rude - (used especially of commodities) in the natural unprocessed condition; "natural yogurt"; "natural produce"; "raw wool"; "raw sugar"; "bales of rude cotton" | |
5. | rude - 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" |
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. |