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unrude

unrude adjective: not rude.

Adjective

unrude (comparative more unrude, superlative most unrude)

  1. Not rude.
    • Manners knovvs diſtance, and a man unrude / VVo'd ſoon recoile, and not intrude / His Stomach to a ſecond Meale.1648, Robert Herrick, “A Panegerick to Sir Lewis Pemberton”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas]...
    Synonyms:
    polite

Synonyms of unrude

Forms of unrude

comparativemore unrude
superlativemost unrude

Origin of unrude

From un- + rude.

Questions about unrude

What does unrude mean?
Unrude means not rude.
What part of speech is unrude?
Unrude is an adjective.

Words near unrude in the dictionary

  1. unrubbery
  2. unrubbish
  3. unrubrical
  4. unrubricated
  5. unruddered
  6. unrude
  7. unrued
  8. unrueful
  9. unruefully
  10. unrueing
  11. unruffable

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