rude

adj

1. discourteous, impolite, uncivil, unceremonious, unmannerly, bad-mannered, disrespectful, misbehaved; indelicate, uncourtly, ungallant, indecorous; ungentlemanly, unladylike, brash, bold, hoydenish, Scot. randy; brazen, barefaced, insolent, impudent, insulting, impertinent, pert, saucy, fresh; sharp, keen, trenchant, acrimonious, caustic, stinging, biting, piercing, stringent, brutal, cruel; bluff, bearish, gruff, inconsiderate, tactless, Scot, and North Eng. misleared; sulky, morose, sullen, ill-tempered, ill-humored; sarcastic, bitter, virulent, snarling, venomous; grouchy, peevish, petulant, splenetic, thorny, cross; abrupt, blunt, brusque, curt, stern, austere; disdainful, disparaging, derisive, contemptuous, opprobrious, contumelious; base, low, vile, obscene, indecent, ribald, foul-mouthed, smutty, offensive.

2. uncouth, uncultured, unrefined, unpolished, uncivilized, incondite; coarse, vulgar, raffish, plebian; churlish, loutish, barbarous, brutish, wild, savage, gross; ignorant, illiterate, unlearned, untrained, untaught, untutored, uneducated, uncultivated; unskilled, unskillful, clumsy, gauche, crude; countrified, provincial, unfashionable, homespun, homebred.

3. rough, harsh, ungentle; hard, coarse, scratchy, abrasive.

4. rugged, crude, raw, rough, roughly wrought, unwrought, unfasioned; amorphous, shapeless, formless, unformed, unshapely, unhewn, scraggy; unfinished, unshapen, ill-formed, asymmetric, asymmetrical.

5.(of sounds) harsh, strident, piercing, ear-splitting; jarring, grating, discordant, inharmonious, cacophonous.

6. artless, inartificial, natural, simple, unadorned, classic.

7. violent, tempestuous, stormy, turbulent, tumultuous, blustering, uproarious; ferocious, savage, fierce, boisterous, riotous; vehement, raging, frenzied, frantic, furious; vigorous, robust, robustious.