Rude vs Precipitous - What's the difference?

rude | precipitous |

As a proper noun rude

is settlement in croatia, near zagreb.

As an adjective precipitous is

steep, like a precipice; as, a precipitous cliff or mountain.

rude

English

(mismatch between senses and translations)

Adjective

(er)

bad-mannered

The girl was so rude to her boyfriend by screaming at him for no reason.

Somewhat obscene, pornographic, offensive.

tough, robust.

undeveloped, unskilled, basic.

* 2 Corinthians 11:6 (KVJ)

But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge

* (rfdate), Rudyard Kipling, The Conundrum of the Workshops

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?"

* 1767 , Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil Society

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

hearty, vigorous; (found particularly in the phrase rude health).

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* rudeness

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Anagrams

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precipitous

English

(wikipedia precipitous)

Adjective

(head)

Steep, like a precipice; as, a precipitous cliff or mountain.

Headlong; as, precipitous fall.

Hasty; rash; quick; sudden; precipitate; as, precipitous attempts.

* 2007, J. Michael Fay, Ivory Wars: Last Stand in Zakouma , National Geographic (March 2007), 46,

...humans have been responsible for a precipitous decline of elephants, from perhaps 300,000 in the early 1970s to some 10,000 today.

(Webster 1913)

Synonyms

* (steep) brant