[ruːd], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- offensively impolite or bad-mannered
(e.g: she had been rude to her boss)

- having a startling abruptness
(e.g: the war came as a very rude awakening)

- vigorous or hearty
(e.g: Isabel had always been in rude health)

- roughly made or done; lacking sophistication
(e.g: a rude coffin)


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Origin:
Middle English(in rude, also ‘uncultured’): from Old French, from Latin rudis ‘unwrought’ (referring to handicraft), figuratively ‘uncultivated’; related to rudus ‘broken stone’