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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: rude adj 1: socially incorrect in behavior; "resentment flared at such an unmannered intrusion" [syn: {ill-mannered}, {bad- mannered}, {rude}, {unmannered}, {unmannerly}] 2: (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace [syn: {ill-bred}, {bounderish}, {lowbred}, {rude}, {underbred}, {yokelish}] 3: lacking civility or good manners; "want nothing from you but to get away from your uncivil tongue"- Willa Cather [syn: {uncivil}, {rude}] [ant: {civil}, {polite}] 4: (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes; "natural yogurt"; "natural produce"; "raw wool"; "raw sugar"; "bales of rude cotton" [syn: {natural}, {raw(a)}, {rude(a)}] 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}, {rude}] From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]: rude 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. From French-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.4 [fd-fra-eng]: rude /ʀyd/ coarse; crude; harsh From Portuguese-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 [fd-por-eng]: rude 1. abrupt 2. crude; raw; rough 3. coarse; crude; harsh From Italian-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 [fd-ita-eng]: rude brutal; gruff; harsh; rough; sour; surly; unkind; unpleasant