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Adjectives (14)
uncivil
adj. lacking civility or good manners; "want nothing from you but to get away from your uncivil tongue"- Willa Cather
crude
adj. 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"
unmannered, ill-mannered, unmannerly
adj. socially incorrect in behavior; "resentment flared at such an unmannered intrusion"
primitive, crude
adj. 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"
natural, raw
adj. (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes; "natural yogurt"; "natural produce"; "raw wool"; "raw sugar"; "bales of rude cotton"
underbred, ill-bred, bounderish, lowbred, uncouth
adj. (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace
Fuzzynyms (78)
discourteous, ungracious
adj. lacking social graces
disrespectful
adj. exhibiting lack of respect; rude and discourteous; "remarks disrespectful of the law"; "disrespectful in the presence of his parents"; "disrespectful toward his teacher"
rude, underbred, ill-bred, bounderish, lowbred, uncouth
adj. (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace
impolite
adj. not polite
insulting, scornful, disdainful, contemptuous
adj. expressing extreme contempt
discourteous
adj. showing no courtesy; rude; "a distant and at times discourteous young"
offensive
adj. causing anger or annoyance; "offensive remarks"
anarchic, anarchical, lawless
adj. without law or control; "the system is economically inefficient and politically anarchic"
disorderly
adj. undisciplined and unruly; "disorderly youths"; "disorderly conduct"
abrupt, unceremonious
adj. without due formalities; "unceremonious dismissal from office"
short, bluff, curt, brusque, brusk
adj. marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him"
unfinished
adj. not brought to the desired final state
primitive, crude, barbarous, gothic
adj. 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"
flip, insolent, impudent, snotty-nosed
adj. marked by casual disrespect; "a flip answer to serious question"; "the student was kept in for impudent behavior"
unadulterated
adj. not mixed with impurities; "unadulterated maple syrup"
virginal, unsullied, pristine
adj. free from dirt or stain: "pristine mountain snow"; "the unsullied splendor of eternal youth"- Oscar Wilde; "nor is there anything more virginal than the shimmer of young foliage"- L. P. Smith
unstained, unsoiled, unspotted
adj. without soil or spot or stain
stainless, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished
adj. of reputation; "his unsullied name"; "an untarnished reputation"
uncivilized
adj. without civilizing influences; "barbarian invaders"; "barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes"
wild, savage, barbarian, barbaric
adj. without civilizing influences; "barbarian invaders"; "barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes"
fell, savage, vicious, barbarous, roughshod, brutal, cruel
adj. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks"
disrespectful
adj. exhibiting lack of respect; rude and discourteous; "remarks disrespectful of the law"; "disrespectful in the presence of his parents"; "disrespectful toward his teacher"
impolite
adj. not polite
rude, uncivil
adj. lacking civility or good manners; "want nothing from you but to get away from your uncivil tongue"- Willa Cather
gauche, graceless, unpolished
adj. lacking social polish; "too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate"; "their excellent manners always made me feel gauche"
tactless, untactful
adj. lacking or showing a lack of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others; "in the circumstances it was tactless to ask her age"
thoughtless
adj. showing lack of careful thought; "the debate turned into thoughtless bickering"
heedless, unthinking, thoughtless, uncaring
adj. without care or thought for others; "the thoughtless saying of a great princess on being informed that the people had no bread; `Let them eat cake'"
indelicate
adj. in violation of good taste even verging on the indecent; "an indelicate remark"; "an off-color joke"
tasteless, in poor taste
adj. lacking aesthetic or social taste
discourteous
adj. showing no courtesy; rude; "a distant and at times discourteous young"
Synonyms (103)
uncivilized
adj. without civilizing influences; "barbarian invaders"; "barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes"
abrasive, scratchy
adj. causing abrasion
cracked, alligatored
adj. of paint or varnish; having the appearance of alligator hide
barky
adj. resembling the rough bark of a tree; "the rattlesnake's barky scales"
broken, rugged
adj. topographically very uneven; "broken terrain"; "rugged ground"
bullate
adj. of leaves; appearing puckered as if blistered
jarring, bumpy, jolting, jolty
adj. covered with or full of bumps; "a bumpy country road"
cracked, chapped, roughened
adj. used of skin roughened as a result of cold or exposure; "chapped lips"
coarse
adj. "coarse skin"; "coarse woolens"
twill, pique, corded, twilled
adj. of textiles; having parallel raised lines
corduroy
adj. made of corduroy fabric
corduroy, log
adj. (of roads) made of logs laid down crosswise: "a corduroy road"
corrugated
adj. shaped into alternating parallel grooves and ridges; "the surface of the ocean was rippled and corrugated"
ribbed, costate
adj. (of the surface) having a rough, riblike texture
craggy, mountainous, cragged, hilly
adj. having hills and crags; "hilly terrain"
crushed
adj. treated so as to have a permanently wrinkled appearance; "crushed velvet"
lined, furrowed, seamed
adj. (used especially of skin) marked by lines or seams; "their lined faces were immeasurably sad"; "a seamed face"
grooved, canaliculate
adj. having thin parallel channels; "canaliculate leafstalks of certain plants"
homespun, nubby, nubbly, slubbed, tweedy
adj. of textiles; having a rough surface; "a sweater knitted of nubbly homespun yarns"
imbricate, imbricated
adj. used especially of leaves or bracts; overlapping or layered as scales or shingles
scaly, scabrous, leprose, scabby, scurfy
adj. rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf
pocked, potholed, pot-holed
adj. used of paved surfaces having holes or pits
wrinkled, puckered, wrinkly
adj. marked with wrinkles or furrows; "her ancient wrinkled cheeks"
rocky, stony, bouldery, bouldered
adj. abounding in rocks or stones; "rocky fields"; "stony ground"; "bouldery beaches"
roughish
adj. somewhat rough
rugose
adj. of leaves; ridged or wrinkled
rutted, rutty
adj. full of ruts; "rutty farm roads"
textured, rough-textured
adj. having surface roughness; "a textured wall of stucco"; "a rough-textured tweed"
unsmooth
adj. having or caused by an irregular surface; "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face"
verrucose, warty
adj. (of skin) covered with warts or projections that resemble warts
bratty, brattish
adj. (used of an ill-mannered child) impolitely unruly
discourteous, ungracious
adj. lacking social graces
unparliamentary
adj. so rude and abusive as to be unsuitable for parliament
beginning, novice
adj. serving to begin; "the beginning canto of the poem"; "the first verse"
embryonic, embryotic, in embryo
adj. in an early stage of development; "the embryonic government staffed by survivors of the massacre"; "an embryonic nation, not yet self-governing"
incipient, inchoate
adj. only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; "incipient civil disorder"; "an incipient tumor"; "a vague inchoate idea"
precocious
adj. appearing or developing early; "precocious flowers appear before the leaves as in some species of magnolias"
primitive
adj. little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type; "archaic forms of life"; "primitive mammals"; "the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe"
crude, unrefined
adj. not refined or processed; "unrefined ore"; "crude oil"
artless, uncultivated, uncultured
adj. (of persons) lacking art or knowledge
clownish, boorish, loutish, neanderthal, oafish
adj. ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude"
common, crude, vulgar, coarse
adj. lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich"
crass
adj. (of persons) so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility
low
adj. unrefined in character; "low comedy"
rough
adj. (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse; "she was a diamond in the rough"; "rough manners"
rough-spoken
adj. rude or uncouth in speech
ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike
adj. not befitting a gentleman
unladylike
adj. lacking the behavior or manner or style considered proper for a lady
Antonyms (7)
civil, polite
adj. not rude; marked by satisfactory (or especially minimal) adherence to social usages and sufficient but not noteworthy consideration for others; "even if he didn't like them he should have been civil"- W.S. Maugham
gallant
adj. unflinching in battle or action; "a gallant warrior"; "put up a gallant resistance to the attackers"
processed
adj. prepared or converted from a natural state by subjecting to a special process; "processed ores"
refined
adj. (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste"
civil, polite
adj. not rude; marked by satisfactory (or especially minimal) adherence to social usages and sufficient but not noteworthy consideration for others; "even if he didn't like them he should have been civil"- W.S. Maugham
rude
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