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Entry 5 senses Webster, 1913

Rude

/ro͞od/ · IPA /ɹud/
01 a. Characterized by roughness; umpolished; raw; lacking delicacy or refinement; coarse.
  1. 1.
    Characterized by roughness; umpolished; raw; lacking delicacy or refinement; coarse.
    “Such gardening tools as art, yet rude, . . . had formed.” — Milton.
  2. 2.
    Unformed by taste or skill; not nicely finished; not smoothed or polished; -- said especially of material things; as, rude workmanship.
    “Rude and unpolished stones.” — Bp. Stillingfleet.
    “The heaven-born child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.” — Milton.
  3. 3.
    Of untaught manners; unpolished; of low rank; uncivil; clownish; ignorant; raw; unskillful; -- said of persons, or of conduct, skill, and the like.
    “He was but rude in the profession of arms.” — Sir H. Wotton.
    “the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.” — Gray.
  4. 4.
    Violent; tumultuous; boisterous; inclement; harsh; severe; -- said of the weather, of storms, and the like; as, the rude winter.
    “[Clouds] pushed with winds, rude in their shock.” — Milton.
    “The rude agitation [of water] breaks it into foam.” — Boyle.
  5. 5.
    Barbarous; fierce; bloody; impetuous; -- said of war, conflict, and the like; as, the rude shock of armies.
    “Rude am I in my speech.” — Shak.
    “Unblemished by my rude translation.” — Dryden.
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.