adj.
    - offensively impolite or ill-mannered. ▸referring to sex in a way considered improper and offensive. 
- very abrupt:![]()  a rude awakening. 
- chiefly Brit. vigorous or hearty.
- dated roughly made or done; lacking sophistication. ▸archaic ignorant and uneducated. 
Derivative
  
    - rudely adv.
- rudeness n.
- rudery n.
 
  Etymology
  ME: from OFr., from L. rudis ‘unwrought’, figuratively ‘uncultivated’; rel. to rudus ‘broken stone’.