adj.
- offensively impolite or ill-mannered.
▸referring to sex in a way considered improper and offensive.
- very abrupt:
a rude awakening.
- chiefly Brit. vigorous or hearty.
- dated roughly made or done; lacking sophistication.
▸archaic ignorant and uneducated.
Derivative
- rudely adv.
- rudeness n.
- rudery n.
Etymology
ME: from OFr., from L. rudis ‘unwrought’, figuratively ‘uncultivated’; rel. to rudus ‘broken stone’.