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ruder

 
Adjective rude has 5 senses
  1. ill-mannered, rude, unmannered, unmannerly - socially incorrect in behavior; "resentment flared at such an unmannered intrusion"
    Antonym: polite (indirect, via impolite)
  2. ill-bred, bounderish, lowbred, rude, underbred, yokelish - (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace
    Antonym: refined (indirect, via unrefined)
  3. uncivil, rude - lacking civility or good manners; "want nothing from you but to get away from your uncivil tongue"- Willa Cather
  4. natural, raw, rude - (used especially of commodities) in the natural unprocessed condition; "natural yogurt"; "natural produce"; "raw wool"; "raw sugar"; "bales of rude cotton"
    Antonym: processed (indirect, via unprocessed)
  5. crude, primitive, rude - 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"
    Antonyms: late, later (indirect, via early)
ruddles ruddy ruddy duck ruddy turnstone rude rude prenominal rudely rudeness ruder rudesby rudey rudier rudiger rudiment rudimentariness rudimentary rudimentry

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