Synonyms for rudeness
Most common
crudeness crudity roughness primitivism discourtesy vulgarity
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Crudeness
2. Discourtesy
discourtesy, vulgarity, incivility, disrespect, insolence, coarseness, impertinence, impudence, harshness, grossness, barbarism, brass, lip, indelicacy, inurbanity, uncourtliness, barbarianism, larrup
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
The property of being rude.
His rudeness was inexcusable.
- n. 2
A rude remark or behaviour.
I'm sick of his rudenesses.
Forms
- Plural
- rudenesses → crudenesses, crudities, roughnesses, primitivisms…
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Rudeness is the behavior that might be expected from a thoroughly uncultured person, and may be either deliberate and insulting or unintentional and even unconscious.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- primitivism Degrowth is not primitivism.
- crudeness Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
- vulgarity I don't mind your smoking, but I mind your vulgarity.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| rudeness | rising | |
| roughness | steady | |
| primitivism | rising | |
| crudeness | falling | |
| crudity | falling | |
| vulgarity | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- lip1
- 5 letters
- brass1
- 6 letters
- larrup
- 7 letters
- crudity
- 9 letters
- roughness2, barbarism4, vulgarity4, insolence3, harshness2, impudence, grossness, crudeness, gruffness
- 10 letters
- disrespect3, incivility5, coarseness, indelicacy, inelegance, inurbanity
- 11 letters
- primitivism, discourtesy, uncouthness
- 12 letters
- impertinence, barbarianism
- 13 letters
- primitiveness, uncourtliness, barbarousness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (roughness2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- impolitesse
- Italiano
- scortesia