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rude

• (s) socially incorrect in behavior
  • resentment flared at such an unmannered intrusion
  bad-mannered, ill-mannered, unmannered, unmannerly,
• (s) (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace bounderish, ill-bred, lowbred, underbred, yokelish,
• (a) lacking civility or good manners
  • "want nothing from you but to get away from your uncivil tongue"- Willa Cather
  uncivil,
• (s) (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
  raw, natural,
• (s) 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
  primitive, crude,

Synonyms

bad-mannered ill-mannered unmannered unmannerly bounderish ill-bred lowbred underbred yokelish uncivil raw natural primitive crude

Antonyms

civil polite

Words of close approximity