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rudely

adv · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • /ˈɹuːdli/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -uːdli
  • CMU ARPABET: R UW1 D L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adv

Meaning 1

In a rude manner.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

adverb

Meaning 2

in an impolite manner

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • he treated her impolitely

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: impolitely, discourteously

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From Middle English rudely, rudeliche, equivalent to rude + -ly.

Across languages

Translations

44 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Old Armenian: խստիւ (xstiw) — in a rude manner
  • Catalan: grollerament — in a rude manner
  • Chinese Mandarin: 推來推去 /推来推去 (tuīláituīqù) — in a rude manner
  • Czech: hrubě — in a rude manner
  • Esperanto: malĝentile — in a rude manner
  • Esperanto: krude — in a rude manner
  • Finnish: töykeästi — in a rude manner
  • Georgian: უხეშად (uxešad) — in a rude manner
  • Greek: αγενώς (agenós) — in a rude manner
  • Hungarian: durván — in a rude manner
  • Icelandic: dónalega — in a rude manner
  • Italian: ignorantemente — in a rude manner
  • Italian: villanamente — in a rude manner
  • Italian: scortesemente — in a rude manner
  • Italian: inurbanamente — in a rude manner
  • Italian: maleducatamente — in a rude manner
  • Italian: sgarbatamente — in a rude manner
  • Italian: incivilmente — in a rude manner
  • Italian: screanzatamente — in a rude manner
  • Italian: scorrettamente — in a rude manner
  • Italian: malamente — in a rude manner
  • Latin: barbarē — in a rude manner
  • Marathi: उद्धटपणे (uddhaṭapṇe) — in a rude manner
  • Marathi: उर्मटपणे (urmaṭapṇe) — in a rude manner
  • Norman: apèrtement — in a rude manner
  • Portuguese: grosseiramente — in a rude manner
  • Portuguese: rudemente — in a rude manner
  • Portuguese: desabridamente — in a rude manner
  • Romanian: nepoliticos — in a rude manner
  • Romanian: grosolan — in a rude manner
  • Romanian: obraznic — in a rude manner
  • Russian: гру́бо (grúbo) — in a rude manner
  • Serbo-Croatian: про̏сто — in a rude manner
  • Serbo-Croatian: не̏уљудно — in a rude manner
  • Serbo-Croatian: о̏со̄рно — in a rude manner
  • Serbo-Croatian: непри́сто̄јно — in a rude manner
  • Serbo-Croatian: гру̑бо — in a rude manner
  • Serbo-Croatian: prȍsto — in a rude manner
  • Serbo-Croatian: nȅuljudno — in a rude manner
  • Serbo-Croatian: ȍsōrno — in a rude manner
  • Serbo-Croatian: neprístōjno — in a rude manner
  • Serbo-Croatian: grȗbo — in a rude manner
  • Spanish: groseramente — in a rude manner
  • Telugu: అమర్యాదగా (amaryādagā) — in a rude manner