rude

Etymology

From Middle English rude, from Old French rude, ruide, from Latin rudis (“rough, raw, rude, wild, untilled”).

adj

1. Lacking in refinement or civility; bad-mannered; discourteous.
   This girl was so rude towards the cashier by screaming at him for no apparent reason.
   Karen broke up with Fred because he was often rude to her.
   [S]he was rude to Sir James sometimes; but he is so kind, he never noticed it. 1871-72, George Eliot, Middlemarch, ch 6
2. Lacking refinement or skill; untaught; ignorant; raw.
   It might be apprehended, that among rude nations, where the means of subsistence are procured with so much difficulty, the mind could never raise itself above the consideration of this subject 1767, Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil Society
   When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden's green and gold, Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mould; And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves, "It's pretty, but is it Art?" 1919, Rudyard Kipling, The Conundrum of the Workshops
   There was a rude bridge there, much fallen, where floating branches caught and white water swirled; […] 1983 [1981], John Crowley, “The Fairies' Parliment”, in Little, Big, Bantam Books, page 583
3. Violent; abrupt; turbulent.
   a rude awakening
   The Air attrite to Fire, as late the Clouds 1577, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 9
4. Somewhat obscene, pornographic, offensive.
   a rude film
   rude language
5. Undeveloped, unskilled, inelegant.
6. Hearty, vigorous; found particularly in the phrase rude health.
   A comfortable house for a rude and hardy race, that lived mostly out of doors, was once made here almost entirely of such materials as Nature furnished ready to their hands. 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden Pond
7. Crudely made; primitive.
   For a while, purple-robed, heel-dangling, I sat on the edge of one of the rude tables, under the wooshing pines. 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 1, in Lolita