Rude \Rude\, a. [Compar. Ruder; superl. Rudest.]

[F., fr. L. rudis.]

1. Characterized by roughness; umpolished; raw; lacking delicacy or refinement; coarse.

Such gardening tools as art, yet rude, . . . had formed. --Milton.

2. Hence, specifically:
   (a) Unformed by taste or skill; not nicely finished; not smoothed or polished; -- said especially of material things; as, rude workmanship. ``Rude was the cloth.'' --Chaucer.

Rude and unpolished stones. --Bp. Stillingfleet.

The heaven-born child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies. --Milton.
   (b) Of untaught manners; unpolished; of low rank; uncivil; clownish; ignorant; raw; unskillful; -- said of persons, or of conduct, skill, and the like. ``Mine ancestors were rude.''

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)