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overrude

overrude adjective: too rude; more rude than necessary or desirable.

Adjective

overrude (comparative more overrude, superlative most overrude)

  1. (rare) Too rude; more rude than necessary or desirable.
    • His effect upon them all was very much that of a boisterous, not overrude, autumn wind, sweeping out cobwebs, and, for the time, freshening the morbid air...1874, Emily Jolly, Colonel Dacre

Forms of overrude

comparativemore overrude
superlativemost overrude

Origin of overrude

From over- + rude.

Questions about overrude

What does overrude mean?
Overrude means too rude; more rude than necessary or desirable.
What part of speech is overrude?
Overrude is an adjective.

Words near overrude in the dictionary

  1. overroughness
  2. overround
  3. overrounded
  4. overrounding
  5. overrounds
  6. overrude
  7. overruff
  8. overruffed
  9. overruffing
  10. overruffs
  11. overrulable

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