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say it: rood
rude is an adjective meaning "socially incorrect in behavior". It is pronounced /ˈɹud/ — rood. It carries 5 recorded senses.
lacking civility or good manners
“want nothing from you but to get away from your uncivil tongue”
(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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for rude come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.