Curt vs Rude - What's the difference?
curt | rude |
Brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude.
*
Short or concise.
bad-mannered
Somewhat obscene, pornographic, offensive.
tough, robust.
undeveloped, unskilled, basic.
* 2 Corinthians 11:6 (KVJ)
* (rfdate), Rudyard Kipling, The Conundrum of the Workshops
* 1767 , Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil Society
hearty, vigorous; (found particularly in the phrase rude health).
Rude is a synonym of curt.
As adjectives the difference between curt and rude
is that curt is brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude while rude is bad-mannered.As a proper noun Curt
is a short form of the male given name Curtis.curt
English
Adjective
(er)Synonyms
* (terse to the point of being rude) abrupt, blunt, brusqueDerived terms
* curtly * curtness * curtailAnagrams
* English autological terms ----rude
English
(mismatch between senses and translations)Adjective
(er)- The girl was so rude to her boyfriend by screaming at him for no reason.
- But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge
- When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden's green and gold,
- Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mould;
- And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart,
- Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves, "It's pretty, but is it Art?"
- It might be apprehended, that among rude nations, where the means of subsistence are procured with so much difficulty, the mind could never raise itself above the consideration of this subject