Antonyms for rude

Antonyms for (adj) rude

Main entry: uncivil, rude

Definition: lacking civility or good manners

Usage: want nothing from you but to get away from your uncivil tongue- Willa Cather

Antonyms: polite, civil

Definition: not rude; marked by satisfactory (or especially minimal) adherence to social usages and sufficient but not noteworthy consideration for others


Main entry: rude, unmannered, unmannerly, bad-mannered, ill-mannered

Definition: socially incorrect in behavior

Usage: resentment flared at such an unmannered intrusion

Antonyms: polite

Definition: showing regard for others in manners, speech, behavior, etc.


Main entry: primitive, rude, crude

Definition: belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness

Usage: the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man; primitive movies of the 1890s; primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains

Antonyms: middle

Definition: between an earlier and a later period of time


Antonyms: late

Definition: being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time


Antonyms: late, later

Definition: at or toward an end or late period or stage of development


Antonyms: middle

Definition: of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages


Antonyms: late

Definition: of a later stage in the development of a language or literature; used especially of dead languages


Antonyms: tardily, late, belatedly

Definition: later than usual or than expected


Main entry: rude, raw, natural

Definition: (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes

Usage: natural yogurt; natural produce; raw wool; raw sugar; bales of rude cotton

Antonyms: processed

Definition: prepared or converted from a natural state by subjecting to a special process


Main entry: rude, yokelish, lowbred, bounderish, underbred, ill-bred

Definition: (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace

Antonyms: refined

Definition: (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel


Antonyms: processed, refined

Definition: freed from impurities by processing


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