Thesaurus
rude
Synonyms and Antonyms of rude
- a rude shelter built from unfinished logs by some forgotten pioneer
- rude stone tools
complex, complicated, intricate, involved, sophisticated
full-blown, grown, mature, matured, perfected, ripe, ripened
civilized, cultivated, enlightened, refined
contemporary, current, latest, mod, modern, modernistic, new, newfangled, new-fashioned, novel, now, present-day, space-age, state-of-the-art, supermodern, ultramodern, up-to-date
- a comedian who uses a lot of rude language in his nightclub act
coarse, common, crass, crude, gross, ill-bred, illiberal [archaic], incult, insensible, low, lowbred, lowbrow, raffish, rough, rough-hewn, roughneck, rugged, tasteless, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar
- missionaries who believed that it was their duty to convert the rude peoples of the world
barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, heathen, heathenish, natural, Neanderthal (or Neandertal), savage, uncivil, uncivilized, uncultivated, wild
- itʼs rude to call someone "ugly"
arch, audacious, bold, bold-faced, brash, brassy, brazen, cheeky, fresh, impudent, insolent, lippy, sassy, saucy, shameless
boorish, caddish, churlish, clownish, loutish, uncouth, vulgar
abrupt, blunt, brusque (also brusk), crusty, curt, gruff, sharp, snippety, snippy
antisocial, crabbed, cross, disagreeable, grumpy, sullen, surly
improper, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, unseemly
arrogant, bumptious, conceited, haughty, high-handed, imperious, peremptory, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, supercilious, superior
- rude hillbillies they might have been, but they produced music with real poignancy
functionally illiterate, innumerate, semiliterate, unknowledgeable
artless, lowbrow, philistine, uncultivated, uncultured
callow, green, inexperienced, innocent, naive (or naïve)
brainless, dumb, idiotic (also idiotical), imbecile (or imbecilic), moronic, stupid, witless
- rude pelts that were sent to Europe to be fashioned into elegant hats and coats
Synonym Discussion of rude
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- rude behavior
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- rough manners
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- a crude joke
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- turning raw youths into polished performers
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