All polite antonyms
poΒ·lite
P p adj polite
- clownish β If you describe a person's appearance or behaviour as clownish, you mean that they look or behave rather like a clown, and often that they appear rather foolish.
- mannerless β without good manners; ill-mannered; discourteous; impolite.
- croupier β A croupier is the person in charge of a gambling table in a casino, who collects the bets and pays money to the people who have won.
- aweless β feeling no awe
- atavistic β Atavistic feelings or behaviour seem to be very primitive, like the feelings or behaviour of our earliest ancestors.
- croupy β pertaining to or resembling croup.
- impudent β of, relating to, or characterized by impertinence or effrontery: The student was kept late for impudent behavior.
- cloddish β of, relating to, or resembling a clod or boor; doltish; stolid.
- clodhopping β loutish; boorish.
- hard-hearted β unfeeling; unmerciful; pitiless.
- crass β Crass behaviour is stupid and does not show consideration for other people.
- derisive β A derisive noise, expression, or remark expresses contempt.
- derisory β If you describe something such as an amount of money as derisory, you are emphasizing that it is so small or inadequate that it seems silly or not worth considering.
- disrespectful β characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
- insolent β boldly rude or disrespectful; contemptuously impertinent; insulting: an insolent reply.
- impolite β not polite or courteous; discourteous; rude: an impolite reply.
- breathy β If someone has a breathy voice, you can hear their breath when they speak or sing.
- gnomic β like or containing gnomes or aphorisms.
- low β to utter by or as by lowing.
- boorish β Boorish behaviour is rough, uneducated, and rude.
- dewy β Something that is dewy is wet with dew.
- crude β A crude method or measurement is not exact or detailed, but may be useful or correct in a rough, general way.
- feller β Robert William Andrew ("Bob"; "Bullet Bob") 1918β2010, U.S. baseball player.
- asocial β avoiding contact; not gregarious
- dog eat dog β marked by destructive or ruthless competition; without self-restraint, ethics, etc.: It's a dog-eat-dog industry.
- inhuman β lacking qualities of sympathy, pity, warmth, compassion, or the like; cruel; brutal: an inhuman master.
- ill-behaved β 1. [numerical analysis] Said of an algorithm or computational method that tends to blow up because of accumulated roundoff error or poor convergence properties. 2. Software that bypasses the defined operating system interfaces to do things (like screen, keyboard, and disk I/O) itself, often in a way that depends on the hardware of the machine it is running on or which is nonportable or incompatible with other pieces of software. In the IBM PC/mess-dos world, there is a folk theorem (nearly true) to the effect that (owing to gross inadequacies and performance penalties in the OS interface) all interesting applications are ill-behaved. See also bare metal. Opposite: well-behaved, compare PC-ism.
- discourteous β not courteous; impolite; uncivil; rude: a discourteous salesman.
- ill-bred β showing lack of good social breeding; unmannerly; rude.
- inhumane β not humane; lacking humanity, kindness, compassion, etc.
- appalling β Something that is appalling is so bad or unpleasant that it shocks you.
- churlish β Someone who is churlish is unfriendly, bad-tempered, or impolite.
- anti-social β Someone who is anti-social is unwilling to meet and be friendly with other people.
- gally β to frighten or scare.
- incult β wild; rude; unrefined.
- dog it β a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
- hoarse β having a vocal tone characterized by weakness of intensity and excessive breathiness; husky: the hoarse voice of the auctioneer.
- hardcore β unswervingly committed; uncompromising; dedicated: a hard-core segregationist.
- hateful β arousing hate or deserving to be hated: the hateful oppression of dictators.
- edgeless β a line or border at which a surface terminates: Grass grew along the edges of the road. The paper had deckle edges.
adjective polite
- wolfish β resembling a wolf, as in form or characteristics.
- abusive β Someone who is abusive behaves in a cruel and violent way towards other people.
- cavalier β If you describe a person or their behaviour as cavalier, you are criticizing them because you think that they do not consider other people's feelings or take account of the seriousness of a situation.
- asperous β Rough, rugged, uneven.
- graceless β without any sense of right or propriety.
- hardboiled β Alternative spelling of hard-boiled.
- mean β to intend for a particular purpose, destination, etc.: They were meant for each other. Synonyms: destine, foreordain.